An Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients had of India: And the Progress of Trade with that Country Prior to the Discovery of the Passage to it by the Cape of Good Hope - Hardcover

About The Book: This book contain that this is an introduction to a historical disquisition about the knowledge and trade of the ancient Indians prior to the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope passage, along with observations about their civil policy, laws, judicial proceedings, arts, sciences and religious institutions. About The Author: William Robertson FRSE FSA Scot (1721 –1793) was a Scottish historian, minister in the Church of Scotland, and Principal of the University of Edinburgh. "The thirty years during which presided over the University perhaps represent the highest point in its history." He made significant contributions to the writing of Scottish history and the history of Spain and Spanish America. He was Chaplain of Stirling Castle and one of the King's Chaplains in Scotland. He became minister at Gladsmuir (East Lothian) in 1743 and in 1759 at Lady Yester's Kirk and Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh. A staunch Presbyterian and Whig, he volunteered to defend the city against the Jacobites led by Prince Charles Edward Stuart in 1745. In 1754 he was an original member of The Select Society, also referred to as the Edinburgh Select Society. Robertson became royal chaplain to George III (1761), principal of the University of Edinburgh (1762), Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1763, and Historiographer Royal in 1764, reviving a role within the Royal household in Scotland that had been in abeyance from 1709 until 1763. He was also a member of The Poker Club.