RefNo | CLP/5/11 |
Level | Item |
Title | Paper, tables of the barometrical altitudes at Zurich in Switzerland in 1708 observed by J J [Johann Jakob] Scheuchzer and at Upminster by William Derham |
Date | [1708] |
Description | Derham compares his meteorological observations for Upminster with those of Scheuchzer for Zurich and Dr Michaelangelo Tilli for Pisa over the same time period.
Subject: Pressure / Meteorology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Tables of the barometical altitudes at Zurich in Switzerland in the year 1708. observed by Dr. Joh. Ja. Scheuchzer, F. R. S. and at Upminster in England, observed at the same time by Mr. W. Derham, F. R. S. as also the rain at Pisa in Italy in 1707. and 1708. observed there by Dr. Michael Angelo Tilli, F. R. S. and at Zurich in 1708. and at Upminster in all that time: with remarks on the same tables, as also on the winds, heat and cold, and divers other matters occurring in those three different parts of Europe' |
Language | English |
Extent | 20p |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1708.0054 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA272 | Tilli; Michaelangelo (1655 - 1740) | 1655 - 1740 |
NA1410 | Scheuchzer; Johann Jakob (1672 - 1733); mathematician and natural historian | 1672 - 1733 |
NA6239 | Derham; William (1657 - 1735); naturalist | 1657 - 1735 |