Classified papers: volume 7ii concerning 'Architecture, Ship-building, Geography, Navigation, Voyages, Travels'
Reference number: CLP/7ii
Date: 1721-1739
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Papers on topics of exploration, navigation and cartography. These works were either sent to the Royal Society, usually by their authors or by intermediaries, for reading at ordinary meetings of the Royal Society. Material might be commissioned by the Royal Society, or collected by other means.
The volume has a manuscript listing bound into the front of the book. This notes the paper number (1-18).
- Reference number
- CLP/7ii
- Earliest possible date
- 1721-1739
- Page extent
- 1 volume containing 18 items
- Format
- Manuscript
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Classified papers: volume 7ii concerning 'Architecture, Ship-building, Geography, Navigation, Voyages, Travels', 1721-1739, CLP/7ii, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_7ii/classified-papers-volume-7ii-concerning-architecture-ship-building-geography-navigation-voyages-travels, accessed on 14 December 2024
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This volume contains 18 manuscripts:
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Paper, regarding a trading voyage by Joseph Kellug from Canada to the Mississippi by Paul Dudley
11 May 1721 Reference number: CLP/7ii/1 -
Paper, 'An account of the manner of bending planks in His Majesty's yards at Depthford [Deptford, London] by a sand-heat; invented by Captain Cumberland' by Robert Cay
29 March 1722 Reference number: CLP/7ii/2 -
Paper, regarding New Providence Island in the Bahamas by George
30 April 1724 Reference number: CLP/7ii/3 -
Paper, 'A dissertation concerning the figure of the Earth' by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers
17 December 1724 Creator: John Theophilus Desaguliers Reference number: CLP/7ii/4
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