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Title
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Robert Boyle (1627–1691) A General History of the Air
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Description
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Standardised weather diaries were the answer to weather's elusiveness for the 17th century thinkers who embraced the experimental scientific method according to which data recording and analysis was essential for acquiring knowledge. One of the first modern chemists Robert Boyle persuaded his friend and fellow empiricist philosopher John Locke to start a weather diary in June 1666 with consistent recordings of atmospheric measurements such as temperature and pressure. On 4 September, Locke observed a “dim reddish sunshine” in Oxford, unknowingly describing the effects of the devastating Great Fire of London, which had started two days earlier.
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Creator
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Robert Boyle
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Date
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1692
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Identifier
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[Graveley] 389
A Thousand Words for Weather
