Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16745

    A strange appearance in the air over Coleraine

    Date
    1690
    Creator
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    f23 pp88-89
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 347mm
    width (page): 437mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Image of a strange appearance in the air over Coleraine which took place on Whit Monday 1690, with explanation by Christopher Cole. This is included amongst the papers collected by Robert Southwell.
    Transcription
    A Demonstration of a Strange appearance in the Air over Coleraine on Whit Monday 1690 between two & three in the afternoon by C. C.

    The original of this figure attested by Sam: Miller Esq. of which this is a true Coppy Chris: Cole
    Transcribed by the Making Visible project
    Object history
    This manuscript was sold at Sotheby's in June 1893 (Phillips sale) and acquired by the Royal Society from a purchaser of that lot. Some of the material is signed by Robin Bacon, who was also Robert Boyle's scribe (see William Poole, 'Sir Robert Southwell's Dialogue on Thomas Burnet's Theory of the Earth: "C & S Discourse of Mr Burnett's Theory of the Earth" (1684): Contexts and an Edition', The Seventeenth Century, 23 (2008), 72-104).
    Related fellows
    Robert Southwell (1635 - 1702, British) , Diplomat
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