File:Lowitz arcs - Diagram of solar halos by Lowitz in 1790.jpg
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DescriptionLowitz arcs - Diagram of solar halos by Lowitz in 1790.jpg |
English: This is a diagram of a display of various halos around the sun which were observed by Johann Tobias Lowitz in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1790. The diagram includes the first depiction of "Lowitz arcs". |
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Original publication: Charles Sheldon Hastings, Light: A consideration of the more familiar phenomena of optics ( New York, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901), page 215. |
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Charles Sheldon Hastings (author) ; Johann Tobias Lowitz (artist) |
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English: The original diagram was published in 1794 by the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Sciences. The diagram was copied by Charles S. Hastings and published in his book in 1901.
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