Paper, a Discourse upon the Surface of the Earth, as Delineated in a Specimen of a Philosophico-Geographicall Chart of East Kent by Christopher Packe to Cromwell Mortimer, dated at Canterbury
Reference number: EL/P2/22
Date: 15 November 1736
Description
Account of the topography of east Kent
Engraving of the map is attached with the title 'A specimen of a Philosophico-Chorographicall chart of East Kent'
Canterbury is the centre-point of the map
Scale of six miles
- Reference number
- EL/P2/22
- Earliest possible date
- 15 November 1736
- Page extent
- 10 pages
- Format
- Manuscript and engraving
Creator name
Christopher Packe
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Christopher Packe, Paper, a Discourse upon the Surface of the Earth, as Delineated in a Specimen of a Philosophico-Geographicall Chart of East Kent by Christopher Packe to Cromwell Mortimer, dated at Canterbury, 15 November 1736, EL/P2/22, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_p2_22/paper-a-discourse-upon-the-surface-of-the-earth-as-delineated-in-a-specimen-of-a-philosophico-geographicall-chart-of-east-kent-by-christopher-packe-to-cromwell-mortimer-dated-at-canterbury, accessed on 10 November 2024
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