Echo of Rosneath bay
Date
3 December 1662
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p266
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 366mm
width (page): 231mm
width (page): 231mm
Subject
Description
A map of Rosneath bay and musical notation.
At a meeting of the Royal Society on 3 December 1662, Robert Moray reported that he got a trumpeter at a low ground, A, facing toward C, a house built of stone, to play eight semibreves for about ten seconds. The first echo appeared to come from between B, a rocky precipice, and C; the second one from around D, a church; and the third echo from between D and E, another church. F is the head of the lake, and H, the ‘fair house’ at Rosneath, outside Glasgow.
Other versions of this image can be found at RBO/2ii/049, RBO/2i/053, Cl.P/2/34/003-04 and MS/776/253. Another version of the notation without the map can be found at MS/92/043.
At a meeting of the Royal Society on 3 December 1662, Robert Moray reported that he got a trumpeter at a low ground, A, facing toward C, a house built of stone, to play eight semibreves for about ten seconds. The first echo appeared to come from between B, a rocky precipice, and C; the second one from around D, a church; and the third echo from between D and E, another church. F is the head of the lake, and H, the ‘fair house’ at Rosneath, outside Glasgow.
Other versions of this image can be found at RBO/2ii/049, RBO/2i/053, Cl.P/2/34/003-04 and MS/776/253. Another version of the notation without the map can be found at MS/92/043.
Transcription
A. is a point of Low Land not 6 foot above the water, at a full sea, whether the beach is at low water pretty steep, like a banck some 15 or 16 foot in hight.
B. is a Rocky Precipice, some 10 or 20 yards high, esteemed to be a quarter of a Mile distant fro A. and extended in length some 100 or 120 yards woody at Top.
Etc....
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
B. is a Rocky Precipice, some 10 or 20 yards high, esteemed to be a quarter of a Mile distant fro A. and extended in length some 100 or 120 yards woody at Top.
Etc....
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 3 December 1662, ‘Sir Robert Moray’s account of an echo in Scotland, was read, and his offer of having it more fully inquired into, and more exactly described, was accepted’ (Birch 1:137).
Related fellows
Robert Moray (1608 - 1673, British) , Natural philosopher
Associated place