The wonders of the heavens, being a popular view of astronomy, including a full illustration of the mechanism of the heavens; embracing the sun, moon, and stars, with descriptions of the planets, comets, fixed stars, double stars, the constellations, the galaxy, or milky-way, the zodiacal light, aurora borealis, or norhtern lights, meteors, clouds, falling stars, aërolites, &c (1837)
Bradford, Duncan. [from old catalog] · Boston, American stationers company · leaf 274
eebly illuminated with a reddish lightresembling that of the clouds after sunset. Thislight proceeds from the solar rays refracted by theearths atmosphere, and bent to such a degree asto pass into the shadow, those rays which are notsufficiently refracted to reach the surface of theearth, where… … 29 UBBhirfrg^HBaaBW 226 WONDERS OF THE HEAVENS. tend, as it were, to the focus of a lens; and some ofthem reach the moon, even when the earth isdirectly interposed between it and the sun so as toprevent its reception of any light independently ofthis inflection of rays. If the light thus tending…
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