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Ezechiel de Spanheim (1629-1710) was born in Geneva and studied at the University of Leyden. He became Professor of Rhetoric in Geneva in 1650. He tutored Charles I Louis, Elector of Palatine’s son and became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1679. As a diplomat he represented German states in Paris and London.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezekiel,_Freiherr_von_Spanheim. accessed 27th February 2017
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Source engraving, reproduced by the Fitzwilliam Museum
Author Robert White (1645-1703)
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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 (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
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Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli (1658-1730) was an Italian soldier and naturalist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1691. Marsigli published several books, established a printing-house, and founded an Institute of Sciences and Arts in 1715.
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Ferdinando_Marsili [accessed 28 February 2017]).
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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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Posted on March 4, 2017 by Amy Smith -
Charles Maitland (1668-1748) was a Scottish surgeon who, with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, introduced smallpox inoculation to England. His first demonstration was to the Royal College of Physician in 1721. Then in 1722 an experiment was carried out on six prisoners at Newgate Prison under the direction of Sir Hans Sloane.
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Maitland_(physician) [accessed 4 March 2017]).
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