Paper, regarding a fatal lightning strike, by Mr Thomas Neale

Reference number: CLP/4i/19

Date: 1666

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A relation of the death of Mr Brookes, a justice of peace of Hampshire [England] as it was written in a letter by Mr Thomas Neale, the then high Sheriff of that county.
The incident occurred on 24 January 1665 as Brookes was travelling to Andover.

Subject: Meteorology / Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A relation of a sad effect of thunder and lightning'

Read to the Royal Society on 23 May 1666

Reference number: CLP/4i/19
Earliest possible date: 1666
Physical description: Ink on paper
Page extent: 2 pages
Format: Manuscript

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Thomas Neale

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Thomas Neale, Paper, regarding a fatal lightning strike, by Mr Thomas Neale, 1666, CLP/4i/19, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_4i_19/paper-regarding-a-fatal-lightning-strike-by-mr-thomas-neale, accessed on 13 December 2024

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Date: 3rd May 1665

DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1665.0104

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'A Relation Of the Death of Mr Brooks A Justice of Peace of Hampshire; as it was written in a Letter by Mr Neal, the then High Sheriffe of that County'
Creator: Thomas Neale Reference number: RBO/3/36

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Classified papers of the Royal Society
1660-1741 Reference number: CLP
Classified papers: volume 4i concerning 'Physiology, Meteorology, Pneumaticks'
1661-1728 Reference number: CLP/4i

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