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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

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CLP/4i/19
Earliest possible date
1666
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Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
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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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