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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer to Hans Sloane – December 26, 1718
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Date: December 26, 1718
Author: Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: f. 178
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Scheuchzer informs Sloane that his brother, J. Scheuchzer, has authored a new treatise on botany. He will send a copy to Sloane.
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) was a Swiss scholar and physician. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1703 and his work was published in the Philosophical Transactions. In 1708 his Itinera aplina tira was published in London. It was dedicated to the Royal Society. His largest project was the Itinera per Helvetiae alpines regions facta annis 1702-1711, dedicated to his travels and published in four volumes in 1723 at Leiden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Jakob_Scheuchzer).
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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer to Hans Sloane – October 31, 1716
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Date: October 31, 1716
Author: Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: f. 236
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Scheuchzer sends a paper on the ‘Museum Diluvianum’, of which Sloane is a patron.
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) was a Swiss scholar and physician. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1703 and his work was published in the Philosophical Transactions. In 1708 his Itinera aplina tira was published in London. It was dedicated to the Royal Society. His largest project was the Itinera per Helvetiae alpines regions facta annis 1702-1711, dedicated to his travels and published in four volumes in 1723 at Leiden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Jakob_Scheuchzer).
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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer to Hans Sloane – August 14, 1716
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Date: August 14, 1716
Author: Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 203-204
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Scheuchzer asks Sloane to support his work on fossils. He is planning on writing another book on natural history.
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) was a Swiss scholar and physician. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1703 and his work was published in the Philosophical Transactions. In 1708 his Itinera aplina tira was published in London. It was dedicated to the Royal Society. His largest project was the Itinera per Helvetiae alpines regions facta annis 1702-1711, dedicated to his travels and published in four volumes in 1723 at Leiden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Jakob_Scheuchzer).
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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer to Hans Sloane – May 18, 1716
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Date: May 18, 1716
Author: Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 159-160
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Scheuchzer discusses John Woodward’s new natural historical book and the ‘Phedra Mecoenates’. He sends a catalogue of his collected works.
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) was a Swiss scholar and physician. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1703 and his work was published in the Philosophical Transactions. In 1708 his Itinera aplina tira was published in London. It was dedicated to the Royal Society. His largest project was the Itinera per Helvetiae alpines regions facta annis 1702-1711, dedicated to his travels and published in four volumes in 1723 at Leiden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Jakob_Scheuchzer).
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Peter Hotton to Hans Sloane – January 9, 1705
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Date: January 9, 1705
Author: Peter Hotton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 416-417
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Giorgio Baglivi, the Italian physician, sent some books to Hotton to forward to Sloane. Baglivi wants to know if there is any interest in an English edition. Tournefort wrote that Faluggi is working on a new botanical treatise. People have been asking Hotton when Sloane’s Jamaican book will be published. He wants to know what he should tell them.
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 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrus_Houttuyn).
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Adrian Beverland to Hans Sloane – ca. August, 1710
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Date: ca. August, 1710
Author: Adrian Beverland
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: f. 168
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This letter is not dated, but Sloane wrote a draft answer to it on the verso dated August 24, 1710. Beverland wants to sell some sketches and books, including one on or by Cicero. He mentions the Duke of York.
Adrian Beverland was a philosopher, jurist, and Dutch emigre living in England. While at the University of Leiden he wrote a paper on Original Sin for which he was imprisoned and fined. He left the Netherlands in 1679 and lived in London until his death in 1716 after problems with mental illness (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Beverland).
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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer to Hans Sloane – June 6, 1709
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Date: June 6, 1709
Author: Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: f. 336
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Scheuchzer sends the portion of his natural history of Switzerland dedicated to its grasses. He sends greetings from Mr Petiver.
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) was a Swiss scholar and physician. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1703 and his work was published in the Philosophical Transactions. In 1708 his Itinera aplina tira was published in London. It was dedicated to the Royal Society. His largest project was the Itinera per Helvetiae alpines regions facta annis 1702-1711, dedicated to his travels and published in four volumes in 1723 at Leiden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Jakob_Scheuchzer).
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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer to Hans Sloane – October 19, 1708
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Date: October 19, 1708
Author: Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 230-231
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Scheuchzer sends Villemoti’s book on astronomy. He is waiting for copies of his book, published in London, to arrive and asks whether Sloane received the barometric observations and text on fish he sent him.
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) was a Swiss scholar and physician. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1703 and his work was published in the Philosophical Transactions. In 1708 his Itinera aplina tira was published in London. It was dedicated to the Royal Society. His largest project was the Itinera per Helvetiae alpines regions facta annis 1702-1711, dedicated to his travels and published in four volumes in 1723 at Leiden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Jakob_Scheuchzer).
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Johann Jakob Scheuchzer to Hans Sloane – July 7, 1708
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Date: July 7, 1708
Author: Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: f. 175
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Scheuchzer sends a botanical treatise and some plant specimens.
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) was a Swiss scholar and physician. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1703 and his work was published in the Philosophical Transactions. In 1708 his Itinera aplina tira was published in London. It was dedicated to the Royal Society. His largest project was the Itinera per Helvetiae alpines regions facta annis 1702-1711, dedicated to his travels and published in four volumes in 1723 at Leiden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Jakob_Scheuchzer).
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Johann Georg Steigertahl to Hans Sloane – August 13, 1716
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Date: August 13, 1716
Author: Johann Georg Steigertahl
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 196-198
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Steigertahl visited J. Munchhausen’s garden with several other men. Munchhausen thanks Sloane for the package he sent, but requests an explanation of English terms. His Majesty is doing well.
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).