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Earth shadow and twilight rays, evening

Eduard Pechuël-Loesche1888

The Royal Society

The Royal Society
London, United Kingdom

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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