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 364
yof vapor seemed to be in motion, the sound wasplainest, and that quarter was the eastern duringmy observation. The scene lasted about half anhour, though the whole night was as light as whenthe moon is in her quarter. Perhaps the most extraordinary northern lightfor regularity and beauty ever… … eight and ten o^clock, several columns of lightwere observed like those represented in the same 314 WONDERS OF THE HEAVENS figure at a a, not so bright as the pyramids of theevening before, which were carried toward thewest, while these were carried toward the east.The rays arose out of a seemingly…
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