Credit: ©The Royal Society 2018
    Image number: RS.13544

    Earth shadow and twilight rays, evening

    Date
    1888
    Creator - Organisation
    After
    Eduard Moritz Pechuël-Loesche (1840 - 1913, German) , Naturalist
    Object type
    Library reference
    RCN46652
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 135mm
    width (print): 191mm
    height (card support): 192mm
    width (card support): 275mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > landscape
    Description
    Study of a shadowed landscape with red twilight solar rays on the horizon.

    Plate 7 from the book Untersuchungen uber Dämmerungserscheinungen zur Erklarung der nach dem Krakatau-ausbruch beobachteten atmospharisch-optischen Storung, by J. Kiessling (Hamburg, Leopold Voss, 1888).

    The plate is inscribed above: ‘Kiessling, Dämmerung-Untersuchungen. Taf. VII.’ Inscribed below: ‘ERDSCHATTEN UND GEGENDAMMERUNG MIT DAMMERUNGSSTRAHLEN, WELCHE NACH DEM GEGENPUNKT DER SONNE CONVERGIEREN (ABEND). [Earth's shadow and twilight with twilight rays converging towards the opposite point of the sun, evening.] Pechuel-Loesche.nach einer Vorlage von Busch. Chromolithographie von Leo Kempner & Co. in Hamburg. Verlag von Leopold Voss in Hamburg (und Leipzig).’

    Karl Johann Kiessling (1839-1905) German physicist, replicated twilight glow phenomena in the laboratory.

    Eduard Moritz Pechuël-Loesche (1840-1913) German naturalist and watercolour painter who travelled widely, including on expeditions to the Congo, Africa.
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