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An Account of a Surprizing Meteor, Seen in the Air, March the 6th, 1715-16. at Night; Containing, I. a Description of This Meteor, from the Author's Own Observations. II. Some Historical Accounts of the Like Meteors Before with Extracts from Such L

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1716 Excerpt: ... Remains of its Evening Twilight; much less could it exhibit a Light so bright as to illuminate that Part of the Sky with a Splendor equal to that of the Moon. Now while we were Viewing this Phenomenon, and Admiring that Lucid Arc; there were Rays of Light sent up from the Horizon, strait upwards, towards the Vertex, but with a flow Motion, like the Ascent of a Rocket. Yet was not their Colour red or fiery; but they were like Lucid Columns, which seemed in part to tremble, and afforded so great a Light near the Arc, that they obscured the Light of our Lanthorn. Those Rays rose up first in one Place, and then in another; not like Lightning, but, as I said before, very slowly, and as it were with deliberation. I could not count the Number of these Rays, because they were not constant, but shot out by fits: so that while one vanished in one Place, another arose in another. There was also a certain Black kind of Darkness between these Lucid Rays; insomuch that the Spectacle was ma jestick, and in some sense terrible. Now that this Darkness was not deriv'd from Clouds, we may gather from this, That when we look'd through a short and wide Telescope of only two Foot, we could see the Stars therein every-where, as we could do in the bright and white Arc itself. This Darting up of the Rays continued for about half an Hour. But now, because I was hindred by the Houses which were in the way from seeing this Appearance to the very Horizon, I went to the Royal Observatory, that I might see every Thing the more freely. Where I observ'd that, so far as I could judge, the Lucid Arc before-mention'd was just as before. But then above that another Arc was here seen, about;o Degrees in Altitude. Yet was it not not so entire as the other, but rather broken irt some Places, nor ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781235861482
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 22
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235861481
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 59 gr


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