Letter 4363

Steigertahl proposes ‘Mr. le Docteur Weidler, le Professeur en Mathematique a Wittenberg’ as a Fellow of the Royal Society. He received the ‘transactions philosophiques, no 412’. Steigertahl found the ‘Observations Meteorologiques et Astonomiques’ in the article called ‘the Curious Observer’ particularly interesting. He sends a list of dissertations, including a paper that compares contemporaneous meteorological observations recorded at Madrid and Wittenburg. ‘Mademoiselle Kneller’ is to deliver the latest ‘Nouvelles literaires de Nuremberg’. Johann Georg Steigertahl (1666-1740) was the personal physician to George I of England. He was a member of the Royal Society and secured the purchase of Engelbert Kaempfer’s collection of East Asian curiosities for Sir Hans Sloane in 1723 (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Steigerthal).