Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15039

    Gletcherhorn, Berne

    Date
    26 September 1673
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    LBC
    Manuscript page number
    vol6 p361b
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 303mm
    width (page): 178mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > landscape
    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 image is copied from LBO/6/310a.
    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.
    Related fellows
    Henri Justel (1620 - 1693, French) , Royal Librarian, Librarian
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    Associated place
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          > Switzerland
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