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Paper, 'A strange thunder clap at Stralsund in Pomerania' by unknown author

Reference number: CLP/4i/33

Date: 14 December 1671

Description

The author shares details of damage caused by thunder and lightning on 29 June 1670. One page is dedicated to details of frost on 9 December 1671.

Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A narrative of divers odd effects of a dreadful thunder clap, at Stralsund in Pomerania, 19/29 June 1670; taken out of a relation, there printed by authority in high Dutch'

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CLP/4i/33
Earliest possible date
14 December 1671
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
9 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'A strange thunder clap at Stralsund in Pomerania' by unknown author, 14 December 1671, CLP/4i/33, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_4i_33/paper-a-strange-thunder-clap-at-stralsund-in-pomerania-by-unknown-author, accessed on 08 December 2025

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