John Woodward to Hans Sloane – January, 1721/22
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Date: January, 1721/22 Author: John Woodward Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046 Folio: f. 196
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English
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British Library, London
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Collections, Library
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Books
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January, 1721/22
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Gresh. Coll.
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F. Kirchers
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[fol. 196] Sr I intreat ye Favour of You to lay out for me that Cardinals Book that you mentiond, as also F. Kirchers, de Peste: & I will send for them, & restore them safe tomorrow. Be pleasd likewise to look whether you have Geo. Valla de Natura Oculorum. I am Sr Your most faithfull humble Servant Woodward Gres. Coll. […] Jan. 1721[/22].
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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