| RefNo | L&P/4/377 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Paper, 'Attempt to ascertain the knowledge of the ancients about the East Indies' by John Caverhill |
| Date | 6 February 1767 |
| Description | 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'
Read date not given. |
| Extent | 23p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper and 3 maps |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1767.0018 |
| RelatedRecord | L&P/4/377/1 |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA5585 | Caverhill; John (- 1781) | - 1781 |