Gletcherhorn, Berne
Date
26 September 1673
Creator
Henri Justel (1620 - 1693, French) , Royal Librarian, librarian
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p310a
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 114mm
width (page): 165mm
width (page): 165mm
Subject
Content object
Description
A small drawing of Gletcherhorn, Berne, showing the mountain, rivulet and huts, in Henri Justel's letter dated Paris, 26 September 1673 to Henry Oldenburg. It was read at the meeting of 1 December 1673 and published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 8, no. 100 (1674), pp. 6191-92.
This drawing is copied in LBC/6/361b.
This drawing is copied in LBC/6/361b.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 11 December 1673, ‘A letter of Mons. Justel to Mr. Oldenburg, from Paris, 26th September, 1673, was likewise read; containing a description of the icy mountain, called Gletcher, in the canton of Berne in Helvetia’ (Birch 3:115).
H. Justel, 'A description and representation of the icy mountain called the Gletscher, in the canton of Berne, which was formerly taken notice of in Number 49', Phil. Trans. vol. 8, no. 100 (January and February, 1674), pp. 6191-92.
H. Justel, 'A description and representation of the icy mountain called the Gletscher, in the canton of Berne, which was formerly taken notice of in Number 49', Phil. Trans. vol. 8, no. 100 (January and February, 1674), pp. 6191-92.
Related fellows
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Associated place