| Description | Whiston shares an account of a parhelion observed at around 10am on Sunday 22 October 1721 in Rutland [England]. Includes a drawing of the parhelion in the text.
Subject: Astronomy / Meteorology
Read to the Royal Society on 26 October 1721
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of two mock-suns, and an arc of a rainbow inverted, with an halo, and its brightest arc, seen on Sunday and Monday, Octob. 22, & 23. 1721. at Lyndon, Comitat' Rutland, communicated by the Rev. Mr. William Whiston, M. A. sometime Professor of the Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge.' |