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Paper, 'On snow' from Leonard Stocke to Cromwell Mortimer

Reference number: L&P/1/54

Date: 29 June 1741

Description

Letter in latin with English translation. Contains plate with twenty-four figures of snowflakes.

Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Enarratio observationum circa rorem deciduum, factarum Medioburgi in Zeelandis, a Leonard Stocke, M. D. Super aperta Planitie plumbea Turris Astronomicæ Joh. Munkii, Architecti publici; tempore nocturno, inter 25 & 26 Julii 1741. N. S. Cum figuris Floccorum Nivalium Jan. 1742. Ibidem observatorum'

Read 25 February 1741.

Reference number
L&P/1/54
Earliest possible date
29 June 1741
Physical description
Ink on paper and plate
Page extent
15 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'On snow' from Leonard Stocke to Cromwell Mortimer, 29 June 1741, L&P/1/54, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_54/paper-on-snow-from-leonard-stocke-to-cromwell-mortimer, accessed on 19 April 2025

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