CATALOGUE. — METEOROLOGY, LUMINOUS METEORS. 



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Luminous Meteors. 



Account of authors. Wcigel Chemie. 1.327- 



Exhalations. 

 Spontaneous light from decomposition. See 



Physical Optics. 

 Lhvvd. Ph. tr. 1694. XVIII. 49, 223. 



Account of some ricks of hay burnt in December 1S93, 

 at Dolgelly, by a vapour like a weak blue flame coming 

 from the sea. 



Bianchini on a fire in the Apennines. A. P. 



1706.336. 

 *Derham and Beccaria on the ignis fatuus. 



Ph. tr. 1729. XXXVI. 204. 



Derham thinks it a vapour on fire ; he saw one frisking 

 about a dead thistle, it was disturbed by the slightest mo- 

 tion of the air. Beccari says, that in the neighbourhood of 

 Bologna, they sometimes divide and meet again, and give 

 out sparks ; that they are most common in rain or snow, 

 which may perhaps be because the vapour is forced out of 

 the earth as the water sinks into it ; that they are not actu- 

 ally on fire, but are rather of the nature of cold phosphori ; 

 that when a horse is crossing a muddy place in hot weather, 

 a flame often rises in his footst«ps : that the meteor often 

 appears near brooks and in clayey soils ; and that one in 

 particular seemed fixed to a certain spot, about two feet 

 above some stones near a river, but disappeared when the 

 observer came close to it, nearly in the same manner as a 

 mist is seldom seen where it is very near to us. 



More. Ph. tr. 1750. XLVI. 466. On the fire 



at Firenzuola. See Volcanos. 

 Shaw's travels. 4. Lond. 1754. 334. 

 Trebra. Deutscher Merkin-. Octob. 1783. 



Atmospherical Meteors and 

 Shootino; Stars. 



Wallis on an igneous meteor. Pli.tr. 1677. 



Xn. 863. 

 Thoresby.' Ph. tr. 1711. XXVII. 322. 

 Halley on some extraordinary meteors. Ph. 



tr. 17 14. XXIX. 159. 

 Account of a phenomenon seen in the sea. 



Ph.tr. 1716. XXIX. 429. 

 Halley on a meteor seen throughout England. 



Ph.tr. 1719- XXX. 978. 



It exploded wiih a great report ; it must have been 60 

 mi!es high, and have passed over300 geographical miles in. 

 a minute. 



Cotes on a great meteor. Ph. tr. 1720. 



XXXI. 66. 

 Vievar on an explosion in the air. Ph. tr. 



1739. XLI.288. 

 Crocker, Bevis, and Breintnall on meteors. 



Ph.tr. 1710. XLI. 346,359. 

 Short on several meteors. Ph. tr. 1741. XLI. 



625. 

 Lord Beauchamp, Fuller, and Gostling on a 



fire ball. Ph. tr. 1741. XLI. 871, 872. 

 Gostling. Ph.tr. 1742. XLII. (iO. 

 Mason on a fire ball. Ph. tr. 1742. XLII. 1. 

 Cooke. Ph. tr. 1742. XLII.25. 

 Gordon and Gostling. Ph. tr. 1742. XLII. 



58, 60. 

 Milner. Ph. tr. 1742. XLII. 138. 



A luminous track remained long after the meteor ; there 

 was also a black cloud. 



Lord Loveli on a fiery whirlwind. Ph. tr, 



1742. XLII. 183. See Waterspouts. 

 Cradoek on a fiery meteor. Ph. tr. 1744. 



XLIII. 78. 

 Costard on a fiery meteor. Ph. tr. 1745. 



XLIII. 522. 

 Smith and Barker on a fire ball. Ph. tr. 1751. 



1,3. 

 Hirst on a fire ball. Ph. tr. 1754. 773. 

 Forster, Colebrooke, and Dutton. Ph. tr. 



1759-299,301. 

 *Prlng!e on the accounts of a meteor. Ph, 



tr. 1 759. 259- 

 Eirch. Ph. tr. 176I.6. 



In New England. 



Silberschlag Thcorie dcr feuerkugcln von 



1762.4. Magdeb. 1764. 

 Winthrop. Ph. tr. 1764, 185. 



Very high, as usual. 

 Swinton. Ph.tr. 1764.326. 

 *Leroy on a meteor. A. P. 1771. 668. II. 30. 



It appears to have been formed over the coasts of En 5- 



