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Tables for each month record date, overall weather conditions, the wind, clouds, barometric and thermometric readings and rainfall.

Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Tabula exhibens cælitempestates, & mutationes, ter unoquoque die: item plagam ventorum, & nubium; altitudinem mercurii in barometro, & spirituum in thermometro; & denique pluviæ quantitatem, quæ quibusdam diebus, & unoquoque mense, per insundibulum 12 pollices latum, apud upminster in comitatu essexiæ decidebat anno 1705. Per W. Derham Rectorem Upminsternsem. & S. R. S'

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CLP/5/8
Earliest possible date
1705
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
8 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

William Derham

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William Derham, Paper, observations of the weather for 1705 by William Derham, 1705, CLP/5/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_5_8/paper-observations-of-the-weather-for-1705-by-william-derham, accessed on 12 October 2026

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