Letter 2084

Jean Théophile Desaguliers to Hans Sloane – June 6, 1716


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Date: June 6, 1716
Author: Jean Théophile Desaguliers
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: f. 170



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[fol. 170] June ye 6th 1716 Sir I have just finish’d this Explanation, which it was impossible for me to do sooner. I am Sir, Your most humble servant J.T. Desugliers

Desaguliers was the son of French Huguenots who quit France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685). He was a natural philosopher and engineer, became Sir Isaac Newton’s pupil, was a proponent of Newtonianism, and performed lectures and experiments at the Royal Society (Patricia Fara, Desaguliers, John Theophilus (16831744), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7539, accessed 12 July 2013]).




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