Henry Newton to Hans Sloane – June 5, 1714
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Date: June 5, 1714 Author: Henry Newton Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043 Folio: ff. 258-259
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English
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British Library, London
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Scholarship, Social
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Experiments, Florence, Italy, Publishing
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June 5, 1714
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Francis Hauksbee Sr. Sir Isaac Newton
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[fol. 258] June. 5. 1714. Sr, I thanke You for your last fav’r by Sr Isaack Newton, but am forc’d to give You a new trouble, having receiv’d the inclos’d this morning from Florence, being wrott by the gentleman who is publishing Mr Hauksbees Experiments there in Italian, to which I beg an answer at your leasure to, Sr, Your most humble obleig’d Servant Hen. Newton
Newton was a diplomat who worked extensively in the Italian states. He published several works in Latin while in Italy and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1709 (Stuart Handley, Newton, Sir Henry (16501715), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/20058, accessed 15 June 2011]).
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