Hail
Date
28 March 1667
Creator
Christopher Wren (1632 - 1723, British) , Architect
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p1
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 215mm
width (page): 182mm
width (page): 182mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Two shapes of hail at the bottom (faint), and three shapes of hail in ink at the top. The hail fell at 4 pm on 26 March (according to this paper, and 27 according to the minutes). This is probably the original drawing produced at the meeting on 28 March 1667. Wren described the hail as a 'perfect cone' (see the top two figures in ink), and the underside (third ink figure) the shape of a 'marigold flower'.
These images are copied in RBO/3/184 and RBC/2/313.
These images are copied in RBO/3/184 and RBC/2/313.
Transcription
Shapes of Haile that fell
March 26 h 4 p. M 1667
produced by Dr Chr. Wren
before the Society March 28 1667
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
March 26 h 4 p. M 1667
produced by Dr Chr. Wren
before the Society March 28 1667
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 28 March 1667, ‘Dr. Wren produced drawings of the figures of hail, which had fallen March 27, 1667, at four in the afternoon, the upper part of which was a perfect cone, the under part the frustrum of a cone. Being turned up, it presented a marigold flower. The angle, he said, was the angle of a pentagon; so that five of them joined together made a circle. These drawings were ordered to be registered’ (Birch 2:162).
Related fellows
Christopher Wren (1632 - 1723, British) , Architect
Associated place