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    Image number: RS.16471

    Evening meteors observed in Oxford

    Date
    March and April 1764
    Creator
    John Swinton (1703 - 1777, British) , Clergyman
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    Manuscript page number
    p145
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (paper): 185mm
    width (paper): 305mm
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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.
    Transcription
    NW. SE.
    Transcribed by the Making Visible project
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