Books with author William W Lace

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Excerpt from Meteors, Aerolites, Storms, and Atmospheric Phenomena: From the French of Zürcher and MargolléThe nations of antiquity contemplated the grand spectacles that Nature offers with emotions different from ours. Their admiration partook more largely of amazement and fear.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ...tempest, the torrents of rain, the lightning, and the thunder, succeed the serenity of the fine weather, the calm, the pure light, and the beauty of an incomparable spring." CHAPTER YII. RAINBOWS.--CROWNS AND EALOS. Description of the Rainhow.--Play of Light in the Drops of Water.--Varied Appearances of the Arch.--Supplementary Arcs.--The Circles of Ulloa.--Crowns.--Colored Arcs.--Parhelia.--White Arcs.--Anthelia.--The Halo of Clere. DESCRIPTION OF THE RAINBOW. "0 Thou, Light, eternally one! dwell there, on high, with the Being eternally one! Thou, 0 changing Color! descend in friendly guise to man!"--Schiller. No scene that Nature presents, better symbolizes this fine thought of the poet than the magnificent arch, painted by the sun upon the dark clouds of a retiring tempest. In all ages, the rainbow has charmed the imaginations and awakened a feeling of hope and consolation in the minds of men. The Hebrew, impressed with the remembrance of the former floods that came upon the earth, felt his soul, that had been disquieted by the thought, resume all its serenity as he beheld the bow of promise. For him it was the token of Jehovah's pardon. The gay fancy of the Greeks made the rainbow the presage of happy tidings to the earth, the goddess Iris, the messenger of Olympus, according to their creed, left her transparent scarf floating on the clouds. Ingenious fiction vanished at the approach of science, and the explanation of the rainbow is, to-day, one of the most complete parts we have of the physical theory of light. It is to Kepler, whose genius was prolific in so many directions, that we are indebted for the discovery of the first causes of the phenomenon; he put it on record, although very briefly, in a letter written by...

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