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
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… … This cylinder being exposed to the sun, and the eyeproperly stationed, there were successively seen allthe reflections and refractions above-rnentioned. Mariotte finds a cause for halos in the form ofthose small, transparent, prismatic needles of whichsnow is composed. In congealing, water…
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