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Paper, 'Memoire instructif sur la nouvelle table chronologique des Chinois' [An instructive memoir of the new Chinese chronological table] by [Johannes Franciscus] Fouquet

Reference number: CLP/16/16

Date: 1729

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Concerning a new chronological table of Chinese history. Sent to the Royal Society by Thomas Dereham from Rome with one of the original Chinese tables printed at Canton (see CLP/16/17 and RBO/14/27).

Project: Chronology

Read to the Royal Society on 1 May 1729

Reference number
CLP/16/16
Earliest possible date
1729
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Ink on paper
Page extent
41 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Memoire instructif sur la nouvelle table chronologique des Chinois' [An instructive memoir of the new Chinese chronological table] by [Johannes Franciscus] Fouquet, 1729, CLP/16/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_16_16/paper-memoire-instructif-sur-la-nouvelle-table-chronologique-des-chinois-an-instructive-memoir-of-the-new-chinese-chronological-table-by-johannes-franciscus-fouquet, accessed on 18 April 2025

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