Lunar halos
Date
1836
Creator
Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804 - 1865, British) , Surveyor
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 190mm
width (drawing): 139mm
width (drawing): 139mm
Subject
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Description
Meteorological study of halo effects surrounding the Moon viewed at Post Ohreala on the Courantyne River, Guiana, South America, during Schomburgk’s expedition to ascend the river.
Original illustration for a brief paper, ‘Description of a phenomenon observed at the Post Ohreala at the river Courantyne on the 22nd September 1836’, by R H Schomburgk. Received by the Royal Society on 22 November 1838, but apparently not published.
Inscribed verso, in ink: ‘This belongs to Mr R.H. Schomburgk’s paper on a meteorological Phaenomenon’.
Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk,(1804-1865) German-born British surveyor and traveller was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1859. He explored (then British) Guiana during the 1830s and 1840s.
Original illustration for a brief paper, ‘Description of a phenomenon observed at the Post Ohreala at the river Courantyne on the 22nd September 1836’, by R H Schomburgk. Received by the Royal Society on 22 November 1838, but apparently not published.
Inscribed verso, in ink: ‘This belongs to Mr R.H. Schomburgk’s paper on a meteorological Phaenomenon’.
Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk,(1804-1865) German-born British surveyor and traveller was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1859. He explored (then British) Guiana during the 1830s and 1840s.
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