Great hail fallen in France
Date
1686
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p1
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 296mm
width (page): 187mm
width (page): 187mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Drawings on a loose sheet accompanying an 'Account of Great Haile fallen in France' communicated by Robert Boyle to a meeting on 3 November 1686.
The text describes how in the night from the 26th to the 27th, at around 11 pm, there was a terrible hail storm that lasted for about an hour. Both the size and the quantity of the hail was exceptional. The effects were devastating: the grapes in the wine fields were destroyed, the trees in the gardens were ravaged. In the morning the author went into the countryside and found more than 6,000 birds killed by the hail. Altogether, the author thought he had no other choice than to report on the matter.
The text is copied into the Register Book (RBO/6/330) but the image was not copied.
The text describes how in the night from the 26th to the 27th, at around 11 pm, there was a terrible hail storm that lasted for about an hour. Both the size and the quantity of the hail was exceptional. The effects were devastating: the grapes in the wine fields were destroyed, the trees in the gardens were ravaged. In the morning the author went into the countryside and found more than 6,000 birds killed by the hail. Altogether, the author thought he had no other choice than to report on the matter.
The text is copied into the Register Book (RBO/6/330) but the image was not copied.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 3 November 1686, 'A French paper communicated by Mr. Boyle concerning an uncommon hail of a prodigious bigness and form, was read' (Birch 4:500).
Related fellows
Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691, British) , Natural philosopher
Associated place