VII. A note concerning the cold of 1740, and of this Year

Abstract

I Find my journal of astronomical observations made at Stoke Newington, in a detached or insulated observatory, whose walls were of brick and two feet thick, that during most part of the night of the 5th day of January 17 39/40 the ink in my stand-dish would freeze in a few minutes, if brought within a foot of the wall;