Letter 1605

Johann Jakob Scheuchzer to Hans Sloane – August 14, 1716


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Date: August 14, 1716
Author: Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 203-204



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Scheuchzer asks Sloane to support his work on fossils. He is planning on writing another book on natural history. Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) was a Swiss scholar and physician. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1703 and his work was published in the Philosophical Transactions. In 1708 his Itinera aplina tira was published in London. It was dedicated to the Royal Society. His largest project was the Itinera per Helvetiae alpines regions facta annis 1702-1711, dedicated to his travels and published in four volumes in 1723 at Leiden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Jakob_Scheuchzer).




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