Meteorological observations in Granada 1706-1730

Abstract

Climatic information recorded by the physician Francisco Fernández Navarrete in Granada (southern Spain) during the first third of the 18th century. Observations are included in the book “Cielo y suelo granadino” (Sky and soil in Granada), and consist of qualitative comments relating climatic conditions to illness and diseases from 1706 to 1730, as well as instrumental observations (using an “English barometer” and a “Florentine thermometer”) from December 1728 to February 1730.