Evening meteors observed in Oxford
Date
March and April 1764
Creator
John Swinton (1703 - 1777, British) , Clergyman
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p145
Material
Dimensions
height (paper): 185mm
width (paper): 305mm
width (paper): 305mm
Subject
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Description
A celestial illumination observed by John Swinton on 5 March 1764 at 11 pm, from his bedchamber in Christ Church College, Oxford, in the Southern part of the sky. Swinton wondered if it was an ‘aurorae australes’. He also saw a luminous arch observed at Oxford on 23 April 1764, 8:55 pm, which disappeared at 9:27 pm.
Published respectively in John Swinton, ‘An Account of a Remarkable Meteor Seen at Oxford, March 5, 1764’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 54 (1764), pp. 326-29; and ‘An Account of a Remarkable Meteor Seen at Oxford, April 23, 1764’, Phil. Trans., vol. 54 (1764), pp. 332-36.
Published respectively in John Swinton, ‘An Account of a Remarkable Meteor Seen at Oxford, March 5, 1764’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 54 (1764), pp. 326-29; and ‘An Account of a Remarkable Meteor Seen at Oxford, April 23, 1764’, Phil. Trans., vol. 54 (1764), pp. 332-36.
Transcription
NW. SE.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
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