 | Thomas Dick - 1845 - 644 Seiten
...translated from a work of Minasi, who witnessed the phenomenon, and wrote a dissertation on the subject. " When the rising sun shines from that point whence its incident ray forms an angle of about forty-five degrees to the sea of Riggio, and the bright surface of the water in the bay is not disturbed... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1845 - 608 Seiten
...translated from a work of Minasi, who witnessed the phenomenon, and wrote a dissertation on the subject. " When the rising sun shines from that point whence its incident ray forms an angle of about forty-five degrees to the sea of Riggio, and the bright surface of the water in the bay is not disturbed... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1846 - 886 Seiten
...a believer in fatalism. FATA MORGANA ; a singular aerial phenomenon seen in the straits of Messina. When the rising sun shines from that point whence...in the bay is not disturbed either by the wind or current, when the tide is at its height, and the waters are pressed up by currents to a great elevation... | |
 | John Brocklesby - 1848 - 256 Seiten
...description of Antonio Minasi, which is regarded as the most correct. '•When the rising sun shines from a point, whence its incident ray forms an angle of about...is not disturbed either by the wind or the current, a spectator, placed on an eminence in the city of Reggio, with his back to the sun, and his face to... | |
 | John Brocklesby - 1848 - 258 Seiten
...of Antonio Minasi, which is regarded as the most correct. "When the rising sun shines from apoint, whence its incident ray forms an angle of about 45°...is not disturbed either by the wind or the current, a spectator, placed on an eminence in the city of Reggio, with his back to the sun, and his face to... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 Seiten
...Biot, in his Astronomic Physique, thus applies, from Minasi's dissertation upon the subject : — " When the rising sun shines from that point whence" its incident ray forms an angle of forty-five degrees, on the sea of Reggio, and the bright surface of the water in the bay is not disturbed... | |
 | Hugh Neill - 1850 - 250 Seiten
...spectator on an eminence in the city of Reggio, with his back to the sun and his face to the sea, and when the rising sun shines from that point whence...forms an angle of about 45° on the sea of Reggio, sees upon the water numberless series of pilasters, arches, castles well delineated, regular columns,... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1850 - 586 Seiten
...translated from a work of Minasi, who witnessed the phenomenon, and wrote a dissertation on the subject : " When the rising sun shines from that point whence its incident ray forms an LI im li - of about forty-five degrees to the sea of i .' i _.."<>. and the bright surface of the water... | |
 | 1851 - 424 Seiten
...Castles of the Fairy Morgana. which is often seen in the air, and in the sea, in the Straits of Messina. When the rising sun shines from that point whence its incident ray forms an angle of forty-five degrees on the Sea of Beggio, and the bright surface of the water in the bay is not disturbed... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1851 - 504 Seiten
...where it is called the Fata Morgana. When the rays of the sun form an angle of about 45° with the sea, and the bright surface of the water in the bay is not disturbed by wind or current, if the spectator be placed with his back to the sun, there suddenly appears on... | |
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When the rising sun shines from that point whence its incident ray forms an angle of about 45°, on the sea of Reggio, and the bright surface of the water in the bay is not disturbed either by the wind or... 
