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 387
south, was between the observer and the bows;he stood level with the river, one hundred andfifty paces from it. On the 6th of August, 1698, Dr. Halley observeda remarkable rainbow, shown in the succeedingfigure,, where A B C is the primary bow, D H E the … secondary, and A F H G C the new bow intersect-ing the secondary D H E, and dividing it nearlyinto three parts. Halley observed the points F, Gto rise, and the arch F G gradually to contract, tillat length the two arches F H G and F G coincided,so that the secondary iris for a great space lost…
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