| Description | Large figure with annotations showing an unusual astronomical occurrence over Coleraine, Northern Ireland between one and two o'clock in the afternoon on Whitmunday [Whit Monday] in 1690. The figure shows the sun in a cloud, a small bright light, a light the size of the sun, light bigger than the son with horns, a dimmer light, a large rainbow, and three small rainbows. An annotation indicates that this paper is a copy of that which was sent to the Dublin Society on 28 September 1694.
Subject: Astronomy
Read to the Royal Society on 20 February 1694 |