Record

RefNoCLP/4i/62
LevelFile
TitlePaper, 'Account of two mock suns' by William Whiston
Date22 October 1721
DescriptionWhiston 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.'
LanguageEnglish
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
Digital imagesView item on Science in the Making
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1720.0052
RelatedRecordRBO/11/35
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