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 382
ly meet in the great white circle parallelto the horizon. For the production of those sunshe supposed a number of small cylinders withopaque kernels, like the foregoing, which werecarried in the air neither perpendicularly, norhorizontally, but inclined to the plane of thehorizon at a certain… … only the cause of the anthelia made by the inter-section of two arches, as in the next figure, butalso that of some other extraordinary arches androds that are sometimes observed near the sun. To make all these different effects of the cylin-ders manifest to the eye, Huygens produced oneof glass, a…
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