Sir Hans Sloane |
Life:
- Born: 16 Apr 1660 (Killyleagh, County Down, Ireland) - 11 Jan 1753 (London)
- 1683 MD, University of Orange
- 1693 Secretary to the Royal Society. Sloane edited the Transactions for about twenty years.
- 1687 Royal College of Physicians. To Jamaica as physician in the suite of the Duke of Albemarle. During his 15 month's stay he observed about 800 new species of plants.
- 1696 Publication of an elaborate catalogue in Latin
- 1712 Ｐurchase of the manor of Chelsea, London.
- 1716 Sloane was created a baronet, the first medical practitioner to receive an hereditary title
- 1719 President of the College of Physicians (holding the office 16 years)
- 1722 Physician-general to the army
- Purchase of Kaempfer's literary remains and some Japanese objects from his nephew Dr. Johann Hermann Kaempfer and Philip Zollman.
- 1727 first physician to George II
- 1727 President of the Royal Society
- 1741 Retirement. Sloane takes his library and cabinet of curiosities from Bloomsbury to his house in Chelsea.
- 1753 After his death Sloanes' collection, together with George II's royal library, was opened to the public at Bloomsbury as the British Museum in 1759.
- Catalogus plantarum quae in insula Jamaica sponte proveniunt vel vulgo coluntur microform : cum earundem synomymis & locis natalibus : adjectis aliis quibusdam quae in insulis Maderae, Barbados, Nieves, & Sancti Christophori nascuntur : seu Prodromi historiae naturalis Jamaicae pars prima / autore Hans Sloane. Londini : Impensis D. Brown, 1696.
[5], 232, [49] p. - A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica [electronic resource] : with the natural history ... of the last of those islands; to which is prefix’d an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c. ... Illustrated with the figures of the things describ’d, .. / By Hans Sloane, ... In two volumes. London : printed by B. M. for the author, 1707-25..
- Sloane, Hans: An Account of a most efficacious medicine for soreness, weakness, and several other distempers of the eyes. London,1745)
