Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.18925

    House struck by lightning

    Date
    1708
    Creator
    Unknown, Engraver
    Creator - Organisation
    The Royal Society, Publisher
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    Description
    Upright sectional view of a house struck by lightening, showing the course the lightening took and the portion of chimney that was lost to it.

    Illustration to ‘II. A relation of the strange effects of thunder and lightnings which happened at Mrs. Close's house at New-Forge, in the county of Down in Ireland, on the 9th of August, 1707. Communicated by Samuel Molyneux Esq; Secretary of the Philosophical Society at Dublin’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 26, issue 313 (February 1708).

    Inscribed in the top right: ‘Philos. Transac. No. 313’

    Samuel Molyneux (1689-1728), British astronomer and politician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1712.
    Related fellows
    Samuel Molyneux (1689 - 1728, British) , Astronomer
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