Echo of Rosneath bay
Date
3 December 1662
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p253
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 320mm
width (page): 200mm
width (page): 200mm
Subject
Content object
Description
A map of Rosneath bay and musical notation.
At a meeting of the Royal Society on 3 December 1662, Robert Moray reported that he got a trumpeter at a low ground, A, facing toward C, a house built of stone, to play eight semibreves for about ten seconds. The first echo appeared to come from between B, a rocky precipice, and C; the second one from around D, a church; and the third echo from between D and E, another church. F is the head of the lake, and H, the ‘fair house’ at Rosneath, outside Glasgow.
Other versions of this image can be found at RBO/2ii/049, RBO/2i/053, Cl.P/2/34/003-04 and RBC/1/266. Another version of the notation without the map can be found at MS/92/043.
This volume is another copy of entries of the first two volumes of the Register Book. It was given to Sir Joseph Banks by G. S. Heales Esquire of Doctor's Common on 31 May 1814.
At a meeting of the Royal Society on 3 December 1662, Robert Moray reported that he got a trumpeter at a low ground, A, facing toward C, a house built of stone, to play eight semibreves for about ten seconds. The first echo appeared to come from between B, a rocky precipice, and C; the second one from around D, a church; and the third echo from between D and E, another church. F is the head of the lake, and H, the ‘fair house’ at Rosneath, outside Glasgow.
Other versions of this image can be found at RBO/2ii/049, RBO/2i/053, Cl.P/2/34/003-04 and RBC/1/266. Another version of the notation without the map can be found at MS/92/043.
This volume is another copy of entries of the first two volumes of the Register Book. It was given to Sir Joseph Banks by G. S. Heales Esquire of Doctor's Common on 31 May 1814.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 3 December 1662, ‘Sir Robert Moray’s account of an echo in Scotland, was read, and his offer of having it more fully inquired into, and more exactly described, was accepted’ (Birch 1:137).
Related fellows
Robert Moray (1608 - 1673, British) , Natural philosopher
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