| Description | Possibly the original table printed at Canton and presented to the Royal Society by Thomas Dereham.
Subject: Antiquities / History
An explanation of the table was published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An explanation of the new chronological table of the Chinese history, translated into Latin from the original Chinese, by Father Johannes Franciscus Foucquet, Soc. Jes. Bishop of Eleutheropolis, and published at Rome in the Year 1730. Collected from two accounts thereof, written in French, one sent from Rome by Sir Tho. Dereham, Bart. to the Royal Society, the other sent from Father Foucquet to Father Eustache Guillemeau, a Barnabite at Paris, and by him transmitted to Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. Pr. R. S' |