Upminster and South Weald
Date
18 February 1707
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p23
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 186mm
width (page): 146mm
width (page): 146mm
Subject
Description
A sketch of the relative position of South Weald (marked as Weald) and Upminster, in a paper by William Derham about his experiments on measuring the speed of sound by firing guns at various locations. This paper was printed, with this figure, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 26, no. 313 (1708). Derham was a rector at Upminster.
Object history
Printed as a woodcut figure showing the relative position of Weal and Upminster, in W. Derham, ‘Experimenta et observationes de soni motu’, Phil. Trans., vol. 26, no. 313 (January and February 1708), pp. 2-35 (p. 15).
Related fellows
William Derham (1657 - 1735, British) , Naturalist
Associated place