Title: Letters upon the Atalantis of Plato, and the ancient history of Asia: intended as a continuation of the Letters upon the origin of the sciences addressed to M. de Voltaire. Translated by James Jacque.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. Titles in this series include lectures, compiled sketches, and chronological discourses on Greece, Rome, and other early European and African civilisations. The collection also has a selection of physical and classical geography texts. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Bailly, Jean Sylvain; Jacque, James; 1801. 2 vol.; 8 . 1312.b.15.

This book is designed as a brief introduction to the study of Eastern science. The author deals only with the main lines of development.