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Account of Patrick Gordon's voyage to the eastern Mediterranean

Reference number: EL/G1/67

Date: February 1696

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Details about Cadiz, Cyprus, Turkey and the Levant
Read to the Royal Society on 4 March 1696

Reference number
EL/G1/67
Earliest possible date
February 1696
Page extent
8 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Patrick Gordon

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Patrick Gordon, Account of Patrick Gordon's voyage to the eastern Mediterranean, February 1696, EL/G1/67, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_g1_67/account-of-patrick-gordons-voyage-to-the-eastern-mediterranean, accessed on 24 May 2025

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