Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.17403

    Whaling in Greenland

    Date
    4 November 1663
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p489
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 320mm
    width (page): 200mm
    Subject
    Description
    Scene depicted in 'The manner of the Whale-fishing in Greenland, given in by Mr Gray to Mr Oldenburg for the [Royal] Society'.

    This image is copied from the images at RBO/2i/308 and RBO/2i/312.

    This volume is another copy of entries of the first two volumes of the Register Book. It was given to Sir Joseph Banks by G. S. Heales Esquire of Doctor's Common on 31 May 1814.
    Object history
    At the meeting of the Royal Society on 4 November 1663, ‘The history of whale-fishing, and of the making of whale-oil, was delivered in by the secretary from Mr. Gray of the Greenland company, who had been in those parts, and present at the killings of whales and the making of oil a dozen times; and was ordered to be registered' (Birch 1:324). The text, without the figure, is printed in Birch 1:324-27.
    Related fellows
    Stephen Gray (1666 - 1736, British) , Astronomer
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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