Map of Port Royal, Jamaica
Date
1694
Creator
John Sturt (1658 - 1730, British) , Engraver
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The Royal Society, Publisher
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A chart of Port Royal accompanying accounts of two earthquakes in Jamaica on 19 February 1688 and 7 June 1692.
Inscribed ‘ A Chart of Port Royal, ey Keys, Soundings, Shoalds & c. Philosoph: Trans: No. 209. I. Sturt Sc.’
Illustration to A letter from Hans Sloane, M.D. and S.R.S: with several accounts of the earthquakes in Peru October the 20th 1687. And at Jamaica, February 19th 1687/8 and June the 7th 1692. Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.18, issue 209 (Apr 1694) pp.78-100. The original letter from Hans Sloane to Richard Waller can be found in the Early Letters of the Royal Society EL/S2/12 without the map.
Hans Sloane (1660-1753), Irish physician and collector, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1685.
Inscribed ‘ A Chart of Port Royal, ey Keys, Soundings, Shoalds & c. Philosoph: Trans: No. 209. I. Sturt Sc.’
Illustration to A letter from Hans Sloane, M.D. and S.R.S: with several accounts of the earthquakes in Peru October the 20th 1687. And at Jamaica, February 19th 1687/8 and June the 7th 1692. Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.18, issue 209 (Apr 1694) pp.78-100. The original letter from Hans Sloane to Richard Waller can be found in the Early Letters of the Royal Society EL/S2/12 without the map.
Hans Sloane (1660-1753), Irish physician and collector, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1685.
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Hans Sloane (1660 - 1753, Irish) , Physician
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