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 384
the appearanceas it was seen by the editor of the AmericanJournal of Science, from which the plate andaccount were taken. At Fort Howard, Green Bay, Michigan, therewas observed, on the 27th of February, 1835, alarge and brilliant halo round the sun, with twoparhelia, A and B, within the… … the circumference of the same circle, at E and F,there were bright luminous spots of an ellipticalform, less intense in brilliancy than the first, butmuch larger; from the highest point, rays faintlycolored and slightly curved appeared to emanate,forming a small arc of a greater circle than…
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