Letter 0770

Thomas Molyneux to Hans Sloane – August 29, 1702


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Date: August 29, 1702
Author: Thomas Molyneux
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 18-19



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Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli has penned a new work of Natural History. Molyneux suggests the scope is too broad and Marsigli will fall short. Molyneux thanks Sloane for the Philosophical Transactions. He asks if his letter regarding Roman Antiquities might be published in the Transactions in light of recent articles on the subject. Thomas Molyneux was a physician and natural philosopher who corresponded with Sloane, Edward Lhuyd, and John Locke (J. B. Lyons, Molyneux, Sir Thomas, first baronet (16611733), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18927, accessed 4 July 2011]).




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