Device for measuring wind
Date
February 1674
Creator
William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker of Lyons (1620 - 1684, British) , Mathematician
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p1
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 294mm
width (page): 194mm
width (page): 194mm
Subject
Description
John Aubrey presented some observations on winds, the direction of wind and how to measure these, which he had executed in the 1650s and 60s (see the following pages in this document). William Brouncker wrote his comments down in the document depicted here. He came up with a device to measure wind, drawn in the document.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 5 February 1674, ‘Mr. Awbrey presented some written observations concerning winds, their blowing down many hundreds of oaks at once, their blowing very differently in places little distant from one another, & c.’ (Birch 3:122).
Related fellows
John Aubrey (1626 - 1697, British) , Antiquary