Light codes at sea
Date
1640s
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p11r
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 297mm
width (page): 182mm
width (page): 182mm
Subject
Description
Drawing of lights that were used as signals to other ships while travelling to the East Indies.
Members of the Royal Society hoped to gather information from all corners of the globe. Committees were established to draw up the ‘proper questions to be inquired of the remotest parts of the world’, and to scour through existing literature and sailors’ logs for information. It is possibly in this context that this document came into the possession of the Royal Society. It is an extract dated 25 March 1641 about a voyage to Bantam (Indonesia) from the journals kept by William Minors, who also kept logs of his voyages to Surat (India) and Gombroon (Bandar Abbas, Iran) for the East India Company.
Members of the Royal Society hoped to gather information from all corners of the globe. Committees were established to draw up the ‘proper questions to be inquired of the remotest parts of the world’, and to scour through existing literature and sailors’ logs for information. It is possibly in this context that this document came into the possession of the Royal Society. It is an extract dated 25 March 1641 about a voyage to Bantam (Indonesia) from the journals kept by William Minors, who also kept logs of his voyages to Surat (India) and Gombroon (Bandar Abbas, Iran) for the East India Company.
Transcription
Article and Instructions for the better
keeping companie att Sea agreede uppon by
us whose names are here subscribed
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
keeping companie att Sea agreede uppon by
us whose names are here subscribed
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
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