Talk:Tenmei eruption

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Inaccurate claim "first of its kind in the west"

Screech is cited for the following claim about Isaac_Titsingh's posthumous report of the 1783 eruption finally appearing in Europe during the 1820s: "the work represented the first of its kind to be disseminated in Europe and the West"

Vague and probably inaccurate. Page 10 of the following Swiss booklet reproduces part of a report by Stamford Raffles on the 1815_eruption_of_Mount_Tambora that was "presented to the Batavian Society for Arts and Sciences in September 1815 and subsequently published. Raffles’ report reached Europe a few months later. Excerpts were printed widely in European newspapers."

https://boris.unibe.ch/81880/1/tambora_e_A4l.pdf

Clearly, Raffles predated the European dissemination of Titsingh's report. The text on this page should be modified, clarifying what exactly was "first" about the latter's report on Tenmei.

FYI, in 1784, Ben Franklin speculated that strange weather in the US was due to the Laki#1783_eruption in Iceland. Martindo (talk) 21:24, 19 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]