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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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