CORONA AND RED CLOUDS IN ECI II >KS 61 



h Envoy, wrote that very day: "The sun was 



total 1 4) minutwi of time; a fixed star 



i ii. I .-i planet appeared very bright; and Ait getting 



out of the eolipae waa preceded by a blood-red streak 



/ht, from it* left limb; which continued not 



longer than 6 or 7 teconds of time-, 1 then part of 



the son's disk appeared, all of a n I .right as 



Venus was ever seen in the night ; nay, brighter, and 



in that very instant gave a light and shadow to things, 



as strong as moonlight uses to da" Flamsteed adds 



\vn conn .strange story : " The Captain 



is set down as the first man ever beard of that took 



notice of a red streak of light preceding the emersion 



Ixxly from a total eclipse. And I take 



notice of it to you, because it infers that the moon 



ha* an atmosphere; and its short continuance of 



only 6 or 7 seconds of tim. -. t.-lls us that its A 



is not more than the 5 or 6 hundredth part of her 



is, about four miles. 



Geneva the same eclipse was viewed by a f r 



r Isaac Newton, Facio Dull Her, who, apparently, 

 li-1 not see the "blood-red streak," but gives a good 

 description of the Crown, or as it is now called 

 Corona. "The clouds," he says, "did change of a 

 colour, and became red, and then of a 

 pale violet There was seen, during the whole tiuu 

 of the total immersion, a whiteness, which did seem 

 to break out from behind the moon, and to encom- 

 pass it on all sides equally. The same whiteness was 



ittle determined, in its outward side, and was 



the toul eclipee of the pretest year there wu eeen "a brillUnt 

 display of carmine-coloured prominenoee extending ore r an arc of At 

 lettt 60 deg." (rim<j, June 1, 1900, p. 10). 



