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 383
d the existence of atmosphericallaminae at that time, such a condition of the atmo-sphere being perhaps connected with the variouscounter currents of the air which are known toexist at the same time at different altitudes. Singular Appearance of Circles round theMoon. On the evening of the 2d of… … red, which was surrounded by a dark purple;around the purple was a circle of bright blue,which faded into a yellowish green, increasingtoward the outer edge to a very vivid green.There appeared to be faint white rays passing fromthe moon across these columns, whose circlesformed, around this lunar…
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