Hans Sloane
Sir Hans Sloane, 1st Baronet (16 April 1660 – 11 January 1753), was an Anglo-Irish physician, naturalist, and collector, with a collection of 71,000 items which he bequeathed to the British nation, thus providing the foundation of the British Museum, the British Library, and the Natural History Museum, London. He was elected to the Royal Society at the age of 24. Sloane travelled to the Caribbean in 1687 and documented his travels and findings with extensive publications years later. Sloane was a renowned medical doctor among the aristocracy, and was elected to the Royal College of Physicians at age 27. Though he is credited with the invention of chocolate milk, it is more likely that he learned the practice of adding milk to drinking chocolate while living and working in Jamaica. Streets and places were later named after him, including Hans Place, Hans Crescent, and Sloane Square in and around Chelsea, London – the area of his final residence – and also Sir Hans Sloane Square in Killyleagh, his birthplace in Ulster. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published: 1725
Superior document: A voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica with the Natural History of the Herbs and Trees, Four-footed Beasts, Fishes, Birds, Insects, Reptiles &c. Of the last of those Islands; To which is prefix'd An Introduction Wherein is an Account of the Inhabitants, Air, Water, Diseases, Trade, &c. of that Place, with some Relations concerning the Neighbouring Continent, and Islands of America. Illustrated with figures of the things described, which have not been heretofore engraved; in large copper-plates as big as the life Vol. II
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Published: 1707
Superior document: A voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica with the Natural History of the Herbs and Trees, Four-footed Beasts, Fishes, Birds, Insects, Reptiles &c. Of the last of those Islands; To which is prefix'd An Introduction Wherein is an Account of the Inhabitants, Air, Water, Diseases, Trade, &c. of that Place, with some Relations concerning the Neighbouring Continent, and Islands of America. Illustrated with figures of the things described, which have not been heretofore engraved; in large copper-plates as big as the life vol. 1
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Published: 1707-.1725
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Superior document: A voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica : with the Natural History of the Herbs and Trees, Four-footed Beasts, Fishes, Birds, Insects, Reptiles &c. Of the last of those Islands; To which is prefix'd An Introduction Wherein is an Account of the Inhabitants, Air, Water, Diseases, Trade, &c. of that Place, with some Relations concerning the Neighbouring Continent, and Islands of America. Illustrated with figures of the things described, which have not been heretofore engraved; in large copper-plates as big as the life [1]