'An Account Of the Effects of Thunder and Lightning Sent from Oxford' by John Wallis

Reference number: RBO/3/33

Date: 1666

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Details of thunder and lightning - observations of the effects of a lightning strike upon two men who were rowing a boat on the river Thames at Medly, near Oxford; one was killed and Wallis gives observations of his post-mortem
Read to the Royal Society on 16 May 1666
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 1, no 13, p 222

Reference number: RBO/3/33
Earliest possible date: 1666
Page extent: 5 pages
Format: Manuscript

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John Wallis

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John Wallis, 'An Account Of the Effects of Thunder and Lightning Sent from Oxford' by John Wallis, 1666, RBO/3/33, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_3_33/an-account-of-the-effects-of-thunder-and-lightning-sent-from-oxford-by-john-wallis, accessed on 08 February 2026

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A relation of an accident by thunder and lightning, at Oxford External link, opens in new tab.

Date: 30th May 1665

DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1665.0097

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