RefNo | CLP/6/32 |
Level | Item |
Title | Paper, regarding an account of the current of the tides around Orcades [Orkney Islands] by Robert Moray |
Date | [1672] |
Description | Moray describes how 'in Fairay-Sound (between the Isles of Fairay and Ætha in Orkney) the sea runs north-east, for the space only of three hours in flowing, and nine hours south-west in ebbing'.
Subject: Oceanography
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of the current of the tydes about the orcades, given in by a gentleman of Scotland, who had pass'd himself that way, and from him communicated to the Publisher by the truly Honourable Sir Robert Moray Knight, deceased, lately one of the Vice-Presidents of the R. Society, of which he had been President formerly; whose death is no less deservedly than exceedingly lamented by all that knew his worth, knowledge, integrity, prudence, and courage' |
Language | English |
Extent | 2p |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1673.0048 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8261 | Moray; Sir; Robert (1608 - 1673); army officer and politician | 1608 - 1673 |