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 379
t in some places, having thecolors of the rainbow, particularly in the partwithin the greatest circle. It had the true sun forits centre. The third H D N was less than thefirst, but greater than the second; it was not entire,but only an arch of a circle, whose centre was fardistant from the sun,… … colors of the rainbow, but not so strong as thoseof the second. There was a great brightness ofthe mixed prismatic colors at the point of nearestapproach of this third and the smallest circle. Atthe points where the third circle intersected thelargest there were two mock-suns or sun-dogs,H and N,…
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