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Moise Pujolas

Posted on February 23, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -

Moise Pujolas (d. 1729) was a Huguenot refugee and clergyman. He was naturalised in Britain in 1696. Pujolas served as Secretary to the General Assembly of the French Churches in London and Governor of the Hospital for Poor French Protestants in 1728

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https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27pujolas%27%29 accessed 23rd February 2017.

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Francesco Cornaro

Posted on February 23, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -

Francesco Cornaro (1670-1734) was the Venetian Ambassador in London. Italian by birth, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1708.

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https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Cornaro_(dyplomata) accessed 23rd February 2017

by John Smith, after Charles D’Agar, mezzotint, 1706

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Peter Hotton (Petrus Houttuyn)

Posted on February 23, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -

Peter Hotton (1648-1709), also known as Petrus Houttuyn, was Professor of Botany and Medicine at Leiden University. He supervised the university’s botanic gardens

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrus_Houttuyn accessed 23rd February 2017

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Herman Boerhaave

Posted on February 26, 2017 by Amy Smith -

Herman Boerhaave was a Dutch physician, botanist, and humanist famous for his teaching at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Leiden. He was a fellow of the Academie des sciences and the Royal Society

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Boerhaave [accessed 26 February 2017].

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Henry Hunt

Posted on February 28, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -

Henry Hunt (d. 1713) came to work for the Royal Society in 1672/3. He worked as an assistant to Robert Hooke and was appointed Operator in 1676. He was was designated Keeper of the Library in 1696 and then Keeper of the Repository and Housekeeper

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Sir Henry Lyons, FRS, The Royal Society, 1660-1940: A History of its Administration under its Charter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1944), 142.

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Jean Anisson

Posted on February 27, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -

Jean Anisson (1642-1721) was the director of the Imprimerie royale du Louvre between 1691 and 1705.

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https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Anisson accessed 27th February 2017

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Jean de Fontaney

Posted on February 27, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -

Jean de Fontaney (1643-1710) was a Jesuit priest who led Louis XIV’s mission to China in 1685. He and his team were admitted to the Academie des Sciences and equipped with astronomical and geological instruments to collect information on their trip. Fontaney was also a distinguished teacher of mathematics and astronomy at the College de Louis le Grand. His work was published in the Journal des Scavans and Memoires de l’Academie des Sciences.

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David E. Mungello, Curious land: Jesuit accommodation and the origins of Sinology, University of Hawaii Press, 1989: pp. 329-330.

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Marinus van Vrijbergen

Posted on February 27, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -

Marinus van Vrijbergen (1657-1711) was the Dutch envoy to Queen Anne from 1702 until his death in 1711.

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James Frederick Chance, Leopold George Wickham Legg, British Diplomatic Instructions 1699-1789, v 32, Offices of the Society, 1922, p 32.

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Henri Basnage de Beauval

Posted on February 27, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -

Henri Basnage de Beauval (1657-1710) was a French Huguenot historian, lexicographer, and journal editor. He published books on lexicography, religious tolerance, and history.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Basnage_de_Beauval accessed 27th February 2017