Herman Boerhaave to Hans Sloane – July 26, 1709
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Date: July 26, 1709 Author: Herman Boerhaave Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042 Folio: ff. 42-43
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Latin
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British Library, London
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Scholarship, Social
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Botany, Correspondence, Professorship, University of Leiden
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July 26, 1709
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Leiden
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Petrus Hotton
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Boerhaave wants to engage in a correspondence with Sloane to discuss botany. He corresponded with Peter Hotton before the latter’s death. Boehaave has taken Hotton’s position at the University of Leiden. Herman Boerhaave was a Dutch physician, botanist, and humanist famous for his teaching at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Leiden. He was a fellow of the Academie des sciences and the Royal Society (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Boerhaave).
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