Letter 1945

John Woodward to Hans Sloane – February 20, 1713/14


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Date: February 20, 1713/14
Author: John Woodward
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: f. 233



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[fol. 233] Gr. Coll. Feb. 20. 1713 Sr This is Mr. Honblons Narrative. You had had it, according to my Promise, sooner, but twas mislaid, & not found till now. You know a Thing of this sort is not properly a Subject of Publick Discourse. When you have read it, be pleased to send it me back. I am s’r. your very humble serv’t. Woodward To Dr. Sloane.

Woodward was a physician, natural historian and antiquary who expounded a theory of the earth in which fossils were creatures destroyed by the biblical flood. This embroiled him in a controversy in which he was opposed by John Ray, Edward Llwyd, Martin Lister, and Tancred Robinson (J. M. Levine, ‘Woodward, John (1665/1668–1728)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29946, accessed 17 June 2011]).




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