Paper, 'Description of a barometer wherein the scale of variation may be increased at pleasure' by Reverend John Rowning Rowning presents a description of a barometer. Subject: Meteorology / Scientific apparatus and instruments Read to the Royal Society on 15 February 1732. Communicated by Dr [Robert] Smith Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A description of a barometer, wherin the scale of variation may be encreased at pleasure' 1732