Ralph Thoresby to Hans Sloane – October 13, 1711
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Date: October 13, 1711 Author: Ralph Thoresby Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042 Folio: f. 356
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English
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British Library, London
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Collections, Philosophical Transactions, Royal Society, Scholarship, Scientific
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Curiosities, Indies, Intellectual Disputes, Leeds, Metallurgy, Publishing, Topography
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October 13, 1711
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Leedes
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Mr Knight Thomas Hearne John Woodward
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Thoresby recounts his exchange with Hearne, who read and commented on a letter Thoresby had sent Sloane. He is not impressed with Hearne’s suggestions. The two men disagree over the metallurgical methods used of the Romans, Britons, and Danes. Thoresby intends to publish a topography of Leeds. He discusses the acquisition of curiosities and his connections in the Indies. Thoresby was an antiquary and topographer. He expanded his fathers Musaeum Thoresbyanum impressively, and his collection brought him into discussion with many important political and scholarly figures (P. E. Kell, Thoresby, Ralph (16581725), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27334, accessed 3 June 2011]).
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