Paper, 'Account of two mock suns' by William Whiston
Reference number: CLP/4i/62
Date: 21 October 1721

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.'
- Reference number
- CLP/4i/62
- Earliest possible date
- 21 October 1721
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Paper, 'Account of two mock suns' by William Whiston, 21 October 1721, CLP/4i/62, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_4i_62/paper-account-of-two-mock-suns-by-william-whiston, accessed on 10 February 2025
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III. 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. External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1721
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1720.0052
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Classified papers: volume 4i concerning 'Physiology, Meteorology, Pneumaticks'
1661-1728 Reference number: CLP/4i
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