Waterspouts
Date
1703
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Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
The Royal Society, Publisher
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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).
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
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