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Image number: RS.10746
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Krakatoa sunset
Date
ca. 1887
Creator
Karl Johann Kiessling (1839 - 1905, German) , Physicist
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 137mm
width (painting): 193mm
width (painting): 193mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Sunset afterglow over water [seen from Hamburg in Germany?] following the eruption of the volcano on Krakatoa, the island in the Sunda Strait, Indonesia on 27 August 1883.
The figure is inscribed lower right: “Herrn E.Douglas Archibald mit vorzuchlicher Hochachtaag. Kiessling Prof.”
Kiessling sent this illustration to Edmund Douglas Archibald (1851-1910) British meteorologist, who mentions it in an accompanying letter to George James Symons (1838-1900), 29 March 1887: “I am sorry to have omitted putting in the sunset picture. I took it out to shew somebody and I suppose thought it was still there. There was in fact what Herbert Spencer would call a want of correspondence between my knowledge of its environment and the environment itself. I shall bring it on Thursday.”
Karl Johann Kiessling (1839-1905) replicated twilight glow phenomena in the laboratory and was the author of Die Dämmerungserscheinungen im Jahre 1883 und ihre physikalische Erklärung...Hamburg u. Leipzig, Verlag Leopold Voss, 1885).
The figure is inscribed lower right: “Herrn E.Douglas Archibald mit vorzuchlicher Hochachtaag. Kiessling Prof.”
Kiessling sent this illustration to Edmund Douglas Archibald (1851-1910) British meteorologist, who mentions it in an accompanying letter to George James Symons (1838-1900), 29 March 1887: “I am sorry to have omitted putting in the sunset picture. I took it out to shew somebody and I suppose thought it was still there. There was in fact what Herbert Spencer would call a want of correspondence between my knowledge of its environment and the environment itself. I shall bring it on Thursday.”
Karl Johann Kiessling (1839-1905) replicated twilight glow phenomena in the laboratory and was the author of Die Dämmerungserscheinungen im Jahre 1883 und ihre physikalische Erklärung...Hamburg u. Leipzig, Verlag Leopold Voss, 1885).
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