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*''Died: [[1753]]''
Hans Sloane is known as the founder of the [[British Museum]]. His personal collection of some 71,000 items, bequeathed to the English nation upon his death in [[1753]], formed the core of what was then established that same year as the British Museum.
His collection included, among items from around the world, objects from the collection of [[Engelbert Kaempfer]], which he obtained shortly after Kaempfer's death in [[1716]]. Sloane also published an English translation of Kaempfer's ''History of Japan''.
Sloane is also credited with the invention of the drink hot chocolate; having been introduced to chocolate as a rather bitter thing during a visit to Jamaica, he experimented with mixing the chocolate with hot milk, sugar, and gin, thus producing a drink that was rather more palatable and which he claimed aided in digestion.<ref>Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, Ishibashi Lectures, University of Tokyo, 2013.</ref>
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Hans Sloane is known as the founder of the [[British Museum]]. His personal collection of some 71,000 items, bequeathed to the English nation upon his death in [[1753]], formed the core of what was then established that same year as the British Museum.
His collection included, among items from around the world, objects from the collection of [[Engelbert Kaempfer]], which he obtained shortly after Kaempfer's death in [[1716]]. Sloane also published an English translation of Kaempfer's ''History of Japan''.
Sloane is also credited with the invention of the drink hot chocolate; having been introduced to chocolate as a rather bitter thing during a visit to Jamaica, he experimented with mixing the chocolate with hot milk, sugar, and gin, thus producing a drink that was rather more palatable and which he claimed aided in digestion.<ref>Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, Ishibashi Lectures, University of Tokyo, 2013.</ref>
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==References==
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[[Category:Foreigners|Sloane]]
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