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RefNoAP/18/9
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished paper, 'On the nature and origin of the Aurora Borealis' by the Reverend Geo [George] Fisher
DateMay 1834
DescriptionFisher shares his personal observations on the Aurora Borealis [Northern Lights]. He suggests that 'the Aurora is chiefly developed at the edge or margin of the Frozen Sea [Arctic Ocean]' and that evaporation and the dissolution of ice into the atmosphere is a possible cause of the Aurora Borealis.

Subject: Astronomy / Magnetism

Received 28 May 1834 by John George Children. Note on back by Children reads 'archives - July 17th 1834'.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On the nature and origin of the Aurora Borealis'.
Extent12p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0172
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA5530Fisher; George (1794 - 1873)1794 - 1873
NA3175Children; John George (1777 - 1852); chemist1777 - 1852
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