George Cheyne to Hans Sloane – March 22, 1703/04
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Date: March 22, 1703/04 Author: George Cheyne Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039 Folio: ff. 249-250
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English
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British Library, London
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Patronage, Philosophical Transactions, Scholarship
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Geometry, Mathematics, Publishing
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March 22, 1703/04
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London
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John Pracy
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Cheyne cannot wait on Sloane. He asks Sloane to favour John Pracy by publishing 3 pages of his geometrical text in the next Philosophical Transactions. George Cheyne was a physician and published many books on philosophical and health-related topics. He promoted taking the waters at Bath and his popular treatise ‘An Essay of Health and Long Life’ (1724) served as a guide to good living. He suffered from extreme obesity, at one point weighing roughly 448 pounds (Anita Guerrini, Cheyne, George (1671/21743), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5258, accessed 5 July 2013]).
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