S. Hill wrote letter 4246 to James Petiver concerning a collection of shells he has as gifts for Petiver. Apart from this, no other information is available about him
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S. Hill to James Petiver, Unknown Date, Sloane MS 4066, f. 378, British Library, London.
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Randal Macdonell was the Captain of the Duc de Bourbon’s Life Guards. He wrote to Sloane to inform him that Lord Duc de Bourbon has instructed him to ask Sloane to bring back a list of items from India when he goes. Aside from this, no other information is known of him.
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Randal Macdonell to Hans Sloane, Unknown Date, Sloane MS 4053, f. 357, British Library, London.
Antoine Augustin Bruzen de la Martiniere,1683 – 1746, was a French polymath. His main work was the Grand Dictionnaire Geographique Et Critique published in ten volumes between 1726 and 1739. He was also employed by king Philip V of Spain.
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Antoine Augustin Bruzen de la Martiniere to Hans Sloane, 1734-04-01, Sloane MS 4053, f. 191, British Library, London
Johann Gabriel Doppelmayer (27 September 1677 – 1 December 1750) was a German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer. He published several works of a scientific nature, covering topics on mathematics and astronomy, including sundials, spherical trigonometry, and celestial maps and globes. One of his works also included useful biographical information on several hundred mathematicians and instrument makers of Nuremberg.
Doppelmayr developed a close relationship with the Dominican monk and cartographer Johann Batist Homann, the founder of a famous cartographic publishing firm. In the early 1700s, Doppelmayr prepared a number of astronomical plates that had appeared in Homann’s atlases, which in 1742 were collected and issued as the Atlas Coelestis in quo Mundus Spectabilis… The atlas contained 30 plates, 20 of which treated astronomical themes and historical development, including Copernicus’s and Tycho Brahe’s cosmological systems, illustration of planetary motion and the solar system, and a detail of the moon’s surface based on telescopic advances.The remaining ten plates were actual star charts, including hemispheres centered on the equatorial poles.
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Johann Gabriel Doppelmayer to Hans Sloane, 1734-11-16, Sloane MS 4053, f. 200, British Library, London
James Ingerson wrote letter 4241 to James Petiver concerning his suffering of gout and offers to pay for aid and medicine with plants. Aside from this, no other information is available about him.
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James Ingerson to James Petiver, Date Unknown, Sloane MS 4066, f. 389, British Library, London.
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