Jean de Fontaney to Hans Sloane – October 22, 1708
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Date: October 22, 1708 Author: Jean de Fontaney Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041 Folio: ff. 232-233
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French
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British Library, London
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Trade or Commodities, Travel
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Books, China
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October 22, 1708
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A Nanci
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De Fontaney asks whether Sloane is interested in procuring books from China. Jean de Fontaney (1643-1710) was a Jesuit priest who led Louis XIV’s mission to China in 1685. He and his team were admitted to the Academie des Sciences and equipped with astronomical and geological instruments to collect information on their trip. Fontaney was also a distinguished teacher of mathematics and astronomy at the College de Louis le Grand. His work was published in the Journal des Scavans and Memoires de l’Academie des Sciences (David E. Mungello, Curious land: Jesuit accommodation and the origins of Sinology, University of Hawaii Press, 1989: pp. 329-330).
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