Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.18665

    Mines in Devon and Cornwall

    Date
    1671
    Creator
    Unknown, Engraver
    Creator - Organisation
    The Royal Society, Publisher
    Object type
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    Material
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    Dimensions
    height (page): 205mm
    width (page): 310mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > mountain
    Description
    Figure to issue 69 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society; a landscape view of the tin mines of Devon and Cornwall.

    Illustration to ‘An accompt of some mineral observations touching the mines of Cornwal and Devon’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 6, issue 69 (31 December 1671). The original communication, by Dr. Cotton, can be found in Classified Papers of the Royal Society CLP/9i/14. It was first read at a meeting of the Royal Society on 25 May 1664 and recorded in Register Book Original RBO/3/212a.
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