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A Brilliant Rainbow

Nature volume 40, page 367 (1889)Cite this article

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FROM the veranda of this Club, several of the members, including myself, have, within five minutes of the time of writing this (6.30 p.m.), witnessed a phenomenon the parallel to which we have never seen before—a most brilliant rainbow, the usual parallel reflection, and another rainbow or reflection quite as brilliant as the ordinary and usual reflection, at an angle which I sketched at the moment, but which, as I have no compasses, I cannot draw semicircular. The tide is out and nothing but little puddles of sea are left.

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