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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...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ... typhoons of the India Ocean are preceded by the same signs, and accompanied by the same phenomena, as the cyclones of the Atlantic, from which they differ in some unimportant particulars only. In the China seas, the strongest of these hurricanes are termed "iron whirlwinds." The frightful sea that they heave up; the tremendous violence of the wind, blowing in opposite directions from one side to the other of the disk; the dangerons calm that reigns at the centre, and leaves the ship motionless under the shock of monstrous billows; the cataracts of rain; the terrific din of the elements,--all unite to render the struggle hopeless for the seaman. It is especially at night, in the midst of profound darkness, under the livid lightnings, or in the strange phosphorescent glare which sometimes envelops the ship, that the horror of the spectacle defies description. "If the winds are let loose in a tempest," says Thomas Fuller, an old seaman, "they become raging madmen in a hurricane." In his voyage to the Isle of France, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre gives a very exact description of a hurricane that he witnessed: "On the 23d of December, in the morning, the wind being at the southwest, the weather began to work up for a gale. Clouds accumulated on the summit of the mountains. They were dark, olive, and copper colored. One long upper band that remained motionless was noticed. The clouds lower down were in swift motion. The sea broke with a great noise on the reefs. Many marine birds sought refuge on land and came flying in from the open expanse. The domestic animals seemed uneasy. The air was heavy and warm, although the wind had not fallen. In view of all these signs that foretold a hurricane, everybody hastened to prop and brace hi...

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