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.
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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