Curious Natural Phenomena
On the Ignis Fatuus
A wand'ring fire Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night Condenses, and the cold environs round, Kindled through agitation to a flame…
Ignis Fatuus
other situations; and we are told of one which appeared about the bed of a woman in Milan, surrounding it, as well as her body, entirely…
Ignis Fatuus: Warltire
In the Appendix to Dr. Priestley's third volume of Experiments and Observations on Air, Mr. Warltire gives an account of some very…
Properties and Effects of Lightning (Before thee with grateful)
before thee with grateful and enraptured hearts; then shall they rejoice to sing the praises of thee, their Benefactor, their Father, and…
Curiosities Respecting Various Phenomena Or
APPEARANCES IN NATURE.-(Continued.) Extraordinary Properties and Effects of Lighting-Thunder Rod-Fire Balls-Terrible Effects of Electrified…
Extraordinary Properties and Effects of Light
NING. A very surprising property of lightning of the zigzag kind, especially when near, is, its seeming omnipresence. If two persons are…
Properties and Effects of Lightning (Hair from the top of the back)
hair, from the top of the back down the sides, came to the ground at the place where the white hair was left entire.” The author of this…
Properties and Effects of Lightning: Franklin
THUNDER ROD. - Dr. Franklin has demonstrated the identity of thunder with the electric explosion. He availed himself of many curious…
Thunder Rod.- Fire Bails
but returned to his house in a state of perfect satisfaction with his success. We may justly consider this as one of the greatest of…
Effects of Electrified Clouds
like the waves of the sea, and emitting globes of fire so luminous, that the night became as clear as day. The effects of it were…
Electrified Clouds.-Extreme Cold
Ry reason taught to scorn those fears That vulgar minds molest, Let no fantastic terrors break My dear Narcissa's rest.
Astonishingly Expansive Force of Freezing Water
Although cold, in general, contracts most bodies, and heat expands them, yet there are some instances to the contrary, especially in the…
Curiosities Respecting Various Phenomena, Or
APPEARANCES IN NATURE.-(Continued.) Water Spout-Fata Morgana-Fairy Rings-Sheet of Phosphoric Fire-Phosphorus -Every object of creation Can…
Water-Spout. - Fata Morgana
Dr. Franklin supposes that a vacaum is made by the rotatory motion of the ascending air, as when water is running through a funnel, and…
Fata Morgana. Fairy Rings
cloudy heavy weather, they are drawn on the surface of the water, bordered with fine prismatical colours.
Fata Morgana. Fairy Rings: Wollaston
FAIRY RINGS,-are circles of dark green grass frequently observed in old pastures; they have long been known under the name of fairy rings…
Phosphoric Fire
coloration of the grass in zigzag streaks, some of which were fifty or sixty yards in length. Instances of this superficial course of the…
Phosphoric Fire: Kunkel
It may be not amiss to conclude this chapter with an account of that very curious substance, PHOSPHORUS. - This singular production was…
Phosphorus.-Spots in the Sun
When phosphorus is heated to the temperature of 148°, it takes fire, burns with a bright flame, and gives out a great quantity of white…
Curiosities Respecting Various Phenomena, Or (II)
APPEARANCES IN NATURE-(Continued.) Spots in the Sun-Diminution of the Sun-Parhelia, or Mock Suns-Eclipses-Halo, or Corona; and similar…
Diminution of the Sun. -Parhelia
lation, applied to the spots which have been discovered on the other planets, has in like manner made us acquainted with their rotation…
Parhelia, or Mock Suns (As when two suns appear in th')
As when two suns appear in th' azure sky, Mounted in Phoebus' chariot fierie bright:
Curious Natural Phenomena
observes, that in general they are seen only when the sun is near the horizon, though he takes notice of two that were seen in Bosphorus…
Parhelia, or Mock Suns (Seem to have their source)
seem to have their source in two other parhelia, which rise with the true sun; and in winter, when the sun never rises above the haze or…
Parhelia, or Mock Suns: Sometimes
We now proceed to describe THE HALO, OR CORONA; AND SIMILAR APPEARANCES. - An Halo is a luminous circle surrounding the sun, moon, planets…
Falling or Shooting Stars
The engraving represents an extraordinary shower of these remarkable meteors, which took place at the Falls of Niagara. The view comprises…
Halo.-Falling or Shooting Star
a kind of glory, consisting of three or four small concentric crowns, of a very lively colour, each exhibiting all the varieties of the…
Three Volcanoes in the Moon
though their origin and signification should be indicated by the most characterizing features. Thus, when we see on the surface of the moon…
Curiosities Respecting Various Phenomena, Or (III)
Silent from the north A blaze of meteors shoots: ensweeping first The lower skies, they all at once converge High to the crown of heav'n…