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 341
lf concealed by the convexityof the earth, continue to traverse the higherregions of the atmosphere above our heads, andpass through and out of it without directly strikingon the earth at all. Some portion of them isintercepted and reflected by the floating particlesabove mentioned, and thrown back… … a point on its surface where the sun S is in the actof setting, its last lower ray SAM just grazingthe surface at A, while its superior rays SN, SOtraverse the atmosphere above A without strikingthe earth, leaving it finally at the points PQR,after being more or less bent in passing through it,the…
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