Letter 2036

Jacques Eugene d'Allonville, Chevalier de Louville par Fontenelle to Hans Sloane – July 10, 1715


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Date: July 10, 1715
Author: Jacques Eugene d'Allonville, Chevalier de Louville par Fontenelle
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 75-76



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Allonville thanks Sloane and the Royal Society for admitting him a Fellow of such an ‘illustre corps’. He comments on the Moon’s atmosphere and the movements of Venus and Jupiter in relation to it. Jacques Eugene Allonville (1671-1732) was a French astronomer and mathematician. He fought in the War of the Spanish Succession and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1715 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_d’Allonville).




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