Paper, 'Attempt to ascertain the knowledge of the ancients about the East Indies' by John Caverhill
Reference number: L&P/4/377
Date: 06 February 1767
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Contains 3 pages of maps.
Reconstruction of the known geography of the Strait of Malacca; Bay of Bengal and Ganges bassin and Gulf of Thailand according to Ptolemy and contemporary scholars.
Subject: Geography
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Some attempts to ascertain the utmost extent of the knowledge of the ancients in the East Indies'
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- L&P/4/377
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- 06 February 1767
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- Ink on paper and 3 maps
- Page extent
- 23 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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John Caverhill, Paper, 'Attempt to ascertain the knowledge of the ancients about the East Indies' by John Caverhill, 06 February 1767, L&P/4/377, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_377/paper-attempt-to-ascertain-the-knowledge-of-the-ancients-about-the-east-indies-by-john-caverhill, accessed on 21 April 2025
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Date: 31st December 1767
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1767.0018
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Decade 4 of scientific letters and papers submitted for publication by the Royal Society
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