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Eight Rainbows seen at the Same Time
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Eight Rainbows seen at the Same Time

  • WILLIAM THOMSON1 

Nature volume 41, page 316 (1890)Cite this article

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THE following letter which I have just received from Dr. Percival Frost of Cambridge, may interest your readers.

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THOMSON, W. Eight Rainbows seen at the Same Time. Nature 41, 316 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/041316b0

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