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Hans Sloane and the Royal Society
A Celebration of Science: Royal BoroughOf Kensington and Chelsea6 October 2015
Noah MoxhamSchool of History, University of St Andrews
[email protected]://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophicaltransactions/
Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753)
Natural History of Jamaica (1707)
Enlightenment Gallery, British Museum
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• Title-page of Volume 1 of Philosophical Transactions (1665-6), edited by Henry Oldenburg
• Dedication of Volume 19 of Philosophical Transactions(1695-7), edited by Hans Sloane
Henry Oldenburg (c. 1619-1677)
William, Viscount Brouncker (1620-1684)
John Wilkins (1614-1672)
Isaac Newton (1643-1727)
Edmond Halley (1656-1742)
Roger L’Estrange (1616-1704)
John Evelyn (1620-1706)
• John Evelyn, Sylva, Or A Discourse of Forest-Trees (1664)
• Robert Hooke, Micrographia, or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies (1665)
• Frontispiece to John Ray and Francis Willughby, Historia Piscium (1686)
Philosophical Transactions I (7) 1665, p. 127
Philosophical Transactions III (44) 1668, p. 882
Dr. Woodward acquaints me, yt Dr. Sloane & Mr. Pettiverhave Insinuated about ye Town, yt. I am ye. Author of, or at least had a [...] in writing ye Pamphlett called the Transactioneer. I beg therefore Sr. yt. you will pleas to Inform ye. R. Society yt. I do hereby solemnly declare ut.I know not who wrote that Paper, nor had I any hand in it, nor ever saw or knew any thing of it till aout a week after it was printed & published.
I was glad then to hear Dr. Sloan declare openly yt. ye. Transactions were his Own, & yt. he would publish in them only what he thought fitt. And I cannot but take this occasion to represent to ye Society yt. it seems very needfull, yt. The Society should in Print declare yt. ye. Transactions are not Theirs, but the Secretary’s. Something of this kind hath been formerly done, & there is now more need of it than ever; The Transactions having of late been very much censured & complain’d of, both by our own Countrymen & Forreginers.
John Harris to Sir John Hoskyns, 27 February 1700