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Title: Astronomy for amateurs
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925 Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice) tr
Subjects: Astronomy
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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FiG. 56.—Fire-Ball seen from the Observatory at Juvisy,August 10, 1899. tached; and the Greeks even gave the name of Siderosto iron, the first iron used having been sidereal. 199 ASTRONOMY FOR AMATEURS No year passes without the announcement of severalshowers of uranoHths, and the phenomenon sometimes
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Fig. 57.—Explosion of a Fire-Bali above Madrid,February 10, 1896. causes great alarm to those who witness it. One of themost remarkable explosions is that which occurred aboveMadrid, February 10, 1896, a fragment from which, 200 THE COMETS sent me by M. Arcimis, Director of the MeteorologicalInstitute, fell immediately in front of the NationalMuseum (Fig. 57). The phenomenon occurred at9.30 A. M., in brilliant sunshine. The flash of the ex-plosion was so dazzling that it even illuminated the in-terior of the houses; an alarming clap of thunder washeard seventy seconds after, and it was believed that anexplosion of dynamite had occurred. The fire-ball burstat a height of fourteen miles, and was seen as far as435 miles from Madrid! In one of Raphaels finest pictures (The Madonna ofFoligno) a fire-ball may be seen beneath a rainbow(Fig. 58), the painter wishing to preserve the remem-brance of it, as it fell near Milan, on September 4, 1511.This picture dates from 1512. The dimensions o

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