Distorted Earth Shadows in Eclipses

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 29 Dec 1887 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Nature, volume 37, pages 202-202 (issn: 0028-0836, eissn: 1476-4687,

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Authors: Toynbee, Henry;

doi: 10.1038/037202b0

Distorted Earth Shadows in Eclipses

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WITH reference to the peculiar appearance of the earth's shadow in the lunar eclipse of August 3 of this year, and noted by “H. H.” and “M. C.” (see NATURE, vol. xxxvi. pp. 367 and 413), it may be of interest to record a similar distortion observed by Capt. A. E. Barlow, on the s.s. Nizam., at Suez, on August 23, 1877. The following entry appears in his meteorological log:—

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