Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 1885
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1885natur..33..175a&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 33, Issue 843, pp. 175-176 (1885).
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
ALLOW me to call the attention of such of your readers as are not already aware of the fact that the phenomena I mentioned in my notes of the late eclipse-the ``pulsation'' of the sun's light just before totality and the simultaneous ``wave-shadows''-are recorded by Grant (``Hist. of Phys. Astronomy,'' p. 404) as having been witnessed in France during the total eclipse of 1842. He mentions several probable causes or contributing causes among them the unsteadiness of the air, which certainly existed here. I have not been able to find these phenomena (or phenomenon with a double aspect) mentioned in any other work accessible to me, and should be obliged to you for a statement of the explanation now received. To an outsider the (apparent) rarity and local character of the phenomenon seem to cause this difficulty:-If it is owing to any cosmical cause, or one common to any large part of our atmosphere, it would seem that the phenomenon should be more widely seen; if, on the other hand, it is owing to the unsteadiness of the observer's atmosphere, should it not occur oftener?
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