Barometer chart
Date
January 1683
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p149r
Material
Dimensions
height (Page): 295mm
width (Page): 193mm
width (Page): 193mm
Subject
Description
Ink and red chalk on paper.
Standard form for the daily recording of one month’s barometric readings. The chart was intended to record surface air pressure in inches of mercury, with a scale 28-31 inHG at the upper edge (each unit divided into tenths) against days of the month 1-31, descending at the right edge.
The printed template was completed at York, England for the month of January 1683 (inscribed ‘1682’). The vertical line forms a bar chart with the barometric readings in the range of 29 4/10 to 30 3/10. There are brief daily meteorological observations on the left side of this line, commencing on 1 January: ‘Fair cleer’.
From the papers of Robert Boyle.
Standard form for the daily recording of one month’s barometric readings. The chart was intended to record surface air pressure in inches of mercury, with a scale 28-31 inHG at the upper edge (each unit divided into tenths) against days of the month 1-31, descending at the right edge.
The printed template was completed at York, England for the month of January 1683 (inscribed ‘1682’). The vertical line forms a bar chart with the barometric readings in the range of 29 4/10 to 30 3/10. There are brief daily meteorological observations on the left side of this line, commencing on 1 January: ‘Fair cleer’.
From the papers of Robert Boyle.
Transcription
Headed: ‘Januarie 1682 Yorke’.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
Charts of this type were devised by Martin Lister (1639-1712). Lister was resident at York and therefore the author of this chart was likely to have been within Lister’s circle.
John Ray, 'Observations of the Wind, Weather, and Height of the Mercury in the Barometer, through out the year 1684; Taken in the Musaeum Ashmoleanum at Oxford, by Robert Plot, LLD. To which is Prefixt a Letter from Him, to Dr. Martin Lister, F. of the R.S. concerning the Use of This and Such Like Historys of the Weather', Phil. Trans., vol. 15 (1685) pp. 930-43.
John Ray, 'Observations of the Wind, Weather, and Height of the Mercury in the Barometer, through out the year 1684; Taken in the Musaeum Ashmoleanum at Oxford, by Robert Plot, LLD. To which is Prefixt a Letter from Him, to Dr. Martin Lister, F. of the R.S. concerning the Use of This and Such Like Historys of the Weather', Phil. Trans., vol. 15 (1685) pp. 930-43.
Related fellows
Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691, British) , Natural philosopher
Martin Lister (1639 - 1712, British) , Physician
Martin Lister (1639 - 1712, British) , Physician
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