Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.18894

    Waterspouts

    Date
    1703
    Creator
    Unknown, Engraver
    Creator - Organisation
    The Royal Society, Publisher
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    Material
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    Description
    Figures from issue 277 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, depicting:

    Table 1-6. Various studies of waterspouts over the Mediterranean sea, as observed from Annaba, Algeria (referred to here as ‘Bona’), showing the spout itself, the cloud above and the surface of the sea below. Illustrations to ‘V. Part of a letter from Mr Alex. Stuart, (a Phycian) to the publisher, concerning some spouts be observed in the Mediterranean’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 23, issue 277. Original proofs of these images can be found in MS/131/146.

    Alexander Stuart (1673-1742), British physician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1714).
    Related fellows
    Alexander Stuart (1668 - 1742) , Physician
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Africa
          > Algeria
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