Paper, 'Essay on weather observations and instruments' by Roger Pickering

Reference number: L&P/1/287

Date: 1744

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Contains four pages of charts and five pages with six figures.

Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A scheme of a diary of the weather; together with draughts and descriptions of machines subservient thereunto; inscribed to the President and fellows of the Royal Society'

Read 3 May 1744.

Reference number: L&P/1/287
Earliest possible date: 1744
Physical description: Ink on paper
Page extent: 33 pages
Format: Manuscript

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Roger Pickering

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Roger Pickering, Paper, 'Essay on weather observations and instruments' by Roger Pickering, 1744, L&P/1/287, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_287/paper-essay-on-weather-observations-and-instruments-by-roger-pickering, accessed on 16 May 2026

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I. A scheme of a diary of the weather; together with draughts and descriptions of machines subservient thereunto; inscribed to the President and fellows of the Royal Society External link, opens in new tab.

Date: 31st December 1744

DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1744.0003

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Letters and Papers of a scientific nature submitted for publication by the Royal Society
1741-1806 Reference number: L&P
Decade 1 of scientific letters and papers submitted for publication by the Royal Society
1741-1746 Reference number: L&P/1

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