Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15543

    Landslide at Clogher

    Date
    7 April 1713
    Creator
    St George Ashe (1658 - 1718, British) , Mathematician
    Object type
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    Manuscript page number
    p1
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 322mm
    width (page): 208mm
    Subject
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    Description
    Drawing in 'An account of a landslide at Clogher' by St George Ashe, the Bishop of Clogher. The letter was read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 16 April 1713.
    Object history
    16 April 1713, 'A letter was read, communicated by the Bp of Clogher, dated April 7, 1713, from Mr Joseph Story. In this was contained a very particular Account of the moving Mountain mentioned in the Minutes March 19 1712/3. This was accompanied with a sketch of the Mountain and of the broken or moving Part. The Letter was ordered to be entered in the Letter Book' (JBO/11/348).

    Printed as Tab. 6, fig. 1: 'a hill near Clogher', in St Georg Ashe, ‘An Account of the Subsiding, or Sinking down of Part of a Hill Near Clogher in Ireland’, Phil. Trans., vol. 28, no. 337 (1713), pp. 267-69.
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    St George Ashe (1658 - 1718, British) , Mathematician
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