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 381
DERS OF THE HEAVENS to the horizon, passing through the sun, and ofnearly the same breadth as that luminary; as wasobserved in the phenomenon seen at Rome in 1629,of which Gassendus and Descartes have written,and of which the following figure is a representa-tion. The circle L K N M is caused by… … whence it follows that the circle must appearwhite, of equal altitude with the sun, and conse-quently parallel to the horizon. Considering thetransparency of these perpendicular cylinders andtheir opaque kernels, it is easily seen that those ofthe white circle which are distant from the sun ata…
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