Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16620

    Figures of snow

    Date
    10 December 1662
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    After
    Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p39
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 353mm
    width (page): 239mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > snow
    Description
    These fourteen snowflakes were observed by Robert Hooke and communicated to the meeting of the Royal Society on 17 December 1662.

    This manuscript is a copy of Register Book no. 2 (RBO/2i) and some letters to the Royal Society, all from between 1662 and 1664.

    Other versions of these images can be found at RBO/2i/062a and MS/776/263-64.
    Object history
    At the meeting of the Royal Society on 17 December 1662, ‘Mr. Hooke communicated likewise some remarks on the figures in frozen urine, frozen water, and snow; and those of the small shootings of hoar-frosts; which were ordered to be registered’ (Birch 1:154).
    Related fellows
    Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
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