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 376
by the arch of vaporbelow, which was darker than ever. Three largespots of intense light were now to be seen, one onthe horizontal chord, and one on each side of thelower arch ; and the lower zone shot out innumer-able pencils and floods of light from its darknucleus, the upper zone also darting… … liant ; the north was, as it were, overspread witha thin veil, through which the stars were barely visible. In the fourth change the northern lightsresumed their three arches, but they were nolonger concentric, the third being broken on theright into a portion of a fourth. Between thesecond and…
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