Étienne François Geoffroy to Hans Sloane – April 18, 1709
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Date: April 18, 1709 Author: Étienne François Geoffroy Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041 Folio: ff. 315-316
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French
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British Library, London
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Scholarship, Scientific
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Academie des sciences, Books, Cataracts, Diet, Lent, Publishing, War
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April 18, 1709
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a Paris
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Manfredi Joseph Pitton de Tournefort Philippe d'Orleans Abbe Jean Paul Bignon
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Geoffroy congratulates Sloane on his election to the Academie des sciences. He hopes for peace so that he can send the books set aside for Sloane. Geoffroy announces that he has been given Tournefort’s chair at the ‘College Royal’. He relates a question on the nature of cataracts and the Academie’s findings. He mentions the upcoming publication of his book, which questions the Lenten diet. Etienne Francois Geoffroy (1672-1731) was an apothecary and physician who studied at Montpellier, like Sloane, and worked at the Jardin du Roi and College Royal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etienne_Francois_Geoffroy).
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