Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15536

    Mines of Devon and Cornwall

    Date
    7 November 1667
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p1
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 215mm
    width (page): 306mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Map of the mines of Devon and Cornwall.

    Printed in S. Colepress, 'An account of some mineral observations touching the mines of Cornwall and Devon', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 6, no. 69 (March 1671), pp. 2096-113, tab. 2.
    Transcription
    Labelled:

    Tab.2
    of Dartmore
    Transcribed by the Making Visible project
    Object history
    At the meeting of the Royal Society on 7 November 1667, ‘Mr. Colepresse’s observations on the tin mines of Devonshire and Cornwall were read, and ordered to be registered’ (Birch 2:208).

    Printed in S. Colepress, 'An account of some mineral observations touching the mines of Cornwall and Devon', Phil. Trans. vol. 6, no. 69 (March 1671), pp. 2096-113, tab. 2. Ref. to 'annexed scheme in Tab. II' and legend at 2102-04, tab. 2.
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