¿Auscultando el tiempo meteorológico? Barómetros en las casas burgalesas de mediados del Setecientos
Keywords:
Barometer, Historical meteorology, Climate, Middle class, Clergymen.Abstract
Barometers were kept in two houses in the city of Burgos by the mid-eighteenth century, as revealed by the post-mortem inventories of their owners. One was a bureaucrat’s home, that of don José Antonio Gonzalo del Río, an official in the administration of the Treasury, a man who enjoyed a high standard of living, income and fortune. Th e other one was that of a canon of the cathedral, don Ignacio de la Vega Soto, archivist of the chapter, a clergyman with limited resources. Th e two inventories amount to 0.5% of the total of the registered documents for the inhabitants of Burgos at that time, not unlike the data for Paris: 0.4%. Th e article analyses the reasons explaining the possession of those instruments of weather forecasting and measurement in the two houses.
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