HN. The tm Mocl^Sms , in the inter JeUien of the Semicircle 
H D Island the Circle S' C H N : The midft of which two Falfe- Sum 
was white and very luminms h and their Extre amities toward? D I 
we^e tinged with the Colours of a Rainbow. The Falfe Sun .marl'd K a 
was fainter than that , ivhich is mar kid H. V 
C. The Mock-Sun, all white, and far lefts Jhifting, than the two 
others . ' 
I. A [pace very dar\ betwixt R . and D, 
This Appearance is took t upon as on® of tlie iiotableftjthac 
Gan be feen,by reafon of the Eoesen&ricity of the Circle H D N, 
and becaufe that the Parhelia 
* were not in the Interferon of *Thofe Five Sms, that appear^ 
the Circle DR BO with the the 29 March, A. 162^. at Rome 
great Circle SCHN, but in that between 2. or 3 . of the clocks in the 
of the Semicircle HDN afternoon, were thus pepted that^ 
As for the two odd Rainbows ; *, T ° f - th 7 ’ ^ ch ^ ere in th * 
? it ^ 5 interfection of two Circles afi&ear'd 
ey appear d at Chartres the 1 o. % H that of A Circle, which paffed 
of Auguft, 16(^5. about half an through the Sms Diske, with am- 
hour pall fix in the Evening 1 tker, that was Conccntrick to the 
and did crofs one another al- f u " : * s maybe feenin Figure ill, 
moft at right Angles, as niav be borrow'd ( for the taper comparing 
fee n bv Fig IV ^ J t0 £ et her ) out o/Des-Cartes*- 
.* , s ... hts Meteors, cap. X. 
The Rainbow, which was op- r 
polite to the Sun, in theufual manner, was more deeply co- 
iour d, than that, which crofs’d it; though even the Colours of 
the firft Iris were not fo flrong , as they are now and then 
The greateft height of the ftronger Rainbow* was about 4.*? 
degrees i the feebler Rainbow loft one of its Legs, by growing 
fainter 5 about 20. degrees above the ftronger, and the J e*be 
low appear d continued to the Horizon, ° g 
Thefe Rainbows did not Juft decuflate one another at right : 
Angles 5 there was fome 6.©r 7. degrees difference. The faint- 
er, feem d to be a Portion of a great Circle j and the ftrongerr 
was but a Portion ©f a fmall Circle 3 as ufually, 6 
The SuDj.at their appearance, was about degrees high above: 
the Horizon, and towards the 17. Aftmuth of the. Weft, .North- 
ward, 
