Curiosities of the sky, a popular presentation of the great riddles and mysteries of astronomy (1909)
Serviss, Garrett Putman, 1851-1929 · New York, London, Harper & brothers · leaf 137
piredby eclipses has been due. But if the corona has beena cause of terror in the past it has become a source ofgrowing knowledge in our time. The story of the first scientific observation of thecorona and the prominences is thrillingly interesting,and in fact dramatic. The observation was… … THE CORONA THE BANNERS OF THE SUN the English astronomer Francis Baily had set up histelescope. The eclipse had begun and Baily was busyat his telescope when, to quote his own words in theaccount which he wrote for the Memoirs of the RoyalAstronomical Society: I was astounded by a tre-mendous burst…
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