Meteorological phenomenon
Date
1760
Creator
John Swinton (1703 - 1777, British) , Clergyman
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 179mm
width (drawing): 192mm
width (drawing): 192mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Sketch of a ‘dark cloud’, identified by its observer as a water spout, seen in the sky over Oxford, England, on 21 September 1760. In the accompanying description, Swinton states that the cloud or pillar, ‘would have resembled an iris [rainbow], had not the colours of it been different’.
Original illustration for the paper ‘An account of a remarkable meteor seen at Oxford…’, by John Swinton, Philosophical Transactions v.52 (1761) pp.99-102.
Inscribed above, in ink, ‘No.XVIII. Mr. Swinton on a Meteor’.
The Reverend John Swinton (1703-1777), British Church of England clergymen and orientalist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1729.
Original illustration for the paper ‘An account of a remarkable meteor seen at Oxford…’, by John Swinton, Philosophical Transactions v.52 (1761) pp.99-102.
Inscribed above, in ink, ‘No.XVIII. Mr. Swinton on a Meteor’.
The Reverend John Swinton (1703-1777), British Church of England clergymen and orientalist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1729.
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