| Description | Daily meteorological records kept at Wittenberg, Saxony-Anholdt. Columns for date and time of observations, barometer I and II, thermometer I, II and III, wind direction and strength 'ex aplustrium indicio' [from the information of others] and 'ex oculi judicio' [from the judgement of his own eye], with general remarks.
Observations in response to James Jurin's appeal for information in the paper: 'Invitatio ad observationes meteorologicas communi consilio instituendas', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, v.32 (1723), pp.422-427.
Headed [p.1]: 'Observationes Barometricae Thermometricae et ventorum ac temepestatis, Wittenbergae institutae, quantum ad priores menses, iisdem instrumentis Barometricis ac Thermometricis, ac superioribus annis factumerat, quantum ad posteriores menses, alio Barometro et Thermometro Anno 1725' [Barometric and thermometric observations of winds and temperatures, instituted at Wittenberg, with the same barometric and thermometric instruments for the earlier months as in previous years; and with another Barometer and Thermometer for later months in 1725]. |