| Description | The author describes a meteor observed in Liverpool [England] on 5 January 1727, writing that 'about seven ’o clock at night I was told that the meteor called by our Sailors, 'Merry Dancers', was visible, and very bright'. Includes an engraved figure of a light in the sky.
Subject: Astronomy
Read to the Royal Society on 16 November 1727
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The description of an aurora borealis mention'd in the foregoing letter.' |