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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

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Observations of the shape of a rainbow witnessed on the ground One figure is attached

Reference number: EL/L6/20

Observations of a rainbow - composition and colours Read to the Royal Society on 8 February 1721 Extract printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 32, no 375, p 24

Reference number: EL/L6/21

Wonders why his letter has not been answered and is unwilling to send further observations

Reference number: EL/L6/22

Concerning the colours of the rainbow; considers Descartes's treatise on meteors Extract printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 32, no 375, p 241

Reference number: EL/L6/23
1722

Observations of the colours of the rainbow and their order Read to the Royal Society on 26 April 1722

Reference number: EL/L6/24

Concerning the colours and composition of the rainbow with a figure

Reference number: EL/L6/25

Observations of the colours of the rainbow Read to the Royal Society on October 1722

Reference number: EL/L6/26

Observations of patterns in the snow Figures attached Read to the Royal Society on 7 March 1722

Reference number: EL/L6/27

Concerning the colours of the rainbow Extracts from EL/L6/21, EL/L6/23, EL/L6/24 and EL/L6/26 have been copied for publication in 'Philosophical Transactions'

Reference number: EL/L6/28

Details an experiment of Marcus Antonius de Dominis with prisms and colours of light Figure attached

Reference number: EL/L6/29
1723

Further thoughts about the composition of the rainbow and consideration of Henry Pemberton's theory

Reference number: EL/L6/30
1724

Observations of mist with a rainbow with 'usual form and position'

Reference number: EL/L6/31

Further discussion of the shape of the rainbow mentioned in EL/L6/31

Reference number: EL/L6/32
1725

Further thoughts on the shape and composition of the rainbow; observations of barometric measurements and the effects the weather had on people with respiratory problems

Reference number: EL/L6/33
1726

Account of the 'aurora borealis' witnessed in Petworth, Sussex, on 8 October 1726

Reference number: EL/L6/34

Discussing the direction of lights from recent meteors; discussing lights in the sky under Lyra; stating that an earthquake was felt in Surrey and not Sussex

Reference number: EL/L6/35

Observations of an 'aurora borealis' witnessed in Liverpool

Reference number: EL/L6/36