Letter 2829

John Locke to Hans Sloane – March 15, 1703/04


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Date: March 15, 1703/04
Author: John Locke
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 261-270



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Locke encloses the data he collected for his weather register. The register includes the date, temperature, barometric pressure, weather (rain, snow, frost, etc.), and his comments. Locke was a philosopher, physician, and highly influential proponent of liberalism in England (J. R. Milton, Locke, John (16321704), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16885, accessed 24 June 2013]).




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