Chapter XXV: Appendix: A

REFERENCES TO SOME WORKS AND ESSAYS ON THE AURORA.

(Most of these are cited in the ‘Edinburgh Encyclopædia’ and the ‘Encyclopædia Britannica.’)

Musschenbroek, Instit. Phys. c. 41.

‘Trai. Phys. et Hist. de l’Aurore Boréale,’ par M. de Mairan. Paris, 1754.

Beccaria, ‘Dell’Elettricismo Artif. e Nat.’ p. 221.

Smith’s ‘Optics,’ p. 69.

D’Alembert’s ‘Opuscules Mathématiques,’ vol. vi. p. 334.

‘Philosophical Transactions’ as under:—

Vol. Pages

1716 406
1717 584, 586
1719 1099, 1101, 1104, 1107
1720 21
1721 180, 186
1723 300
1724 175
1726 128, 132, 150
1727 245, 301
1728 453
1729 137
1730 279
1731 53-55
1734 243, 291
1736 241
1740 368
1741 744, 839, 840, 843
1750 319, 345, 346, 499
1751 39, 126
1752 169
1753 85
1762 474, 479
1764 326, 332
1767 108
1769 86, 307
1770 532
1774 128
1781 228
1790 32, 47, 101

‘Miscell. Berolinens.’ 1710, vol. i. p. 131.

‘Comment. Petrop.’ tom. i. p. 351, tom. iv. p. 121.

‘Acta Petrop.’ 1780, vol. iv. p. 1.

‘Mem. Acad. Paris,’ 1747, pp. 363, 423; 1731; 1751.

‘Mem. Acad. Berl.’ 1710, vol. i. p. 131; 1747, p. 117.

Schwed. ‘Abhandlungen,’ 1752, p. 169; 1753, p. 85; 1764, pp. 200, 251.

Bergman, ‘Opusc.’ vol. v. p. 272.

‘Americ. Trans.’ vol. i. p. 404.

‘Mém. de Mathémat. et Phys.’ tom. viii. p. 180.

Rozier, vol. xiii. p. 409; vol. xv. p. 128; vol. xxxiii. p. 153.

Franklin’s Works, vol. ii.

Weidler, ‘De Aurora Boreale.’ 4to.

Nocetus, ‘De Iride et Aurora Boreale, cum Notis Boscovisch.’ Rome, 1747.

Chiminello, ‘Mem. Soc. Ital.’ vol. vii. p. 153.

Gilbert’s ‘Journal,’ vol. xv. p. 206; and (particularly) Dr. T. Young’s ‘Nat. Phil.’ vol. i. pp. 687, 716, and vol. ii. p. 488.

Wiedeburg, ‘Ueber die Nordlichter.’ Jena, 1771.

Hüpsch, ‘Untersuchung des Nordlichts.’ Cologne, 1778.

Van Swinden, ‘Recueil de Mémoires.’ Hague, 1784.

Wilke, ‘Von den neuesten Erklärungen des Nordlichts,’ Schwed. Mus. Wismar, 1783.

Dalton’s ‘Meteor. Observ.’ 1793, pp. 54, 153.

Loomis, ‘Sill. Journal,’ 2nd series, xxxii. p. 324; xxxiv. p. 34. The same, 3rd series, v. p. 245; B. V. Marsh, 3rd series, xxxi. p. 311.

Oettingen and Vogel, Pogg. Ann. cxlvi. pp. 284, 569.

Galle and Sirks, _ibid._ cxlvi. p. 133; cxlix. p. 112.

Silbermann, ‘Comptes Rendus,’ lxviii. pp. 1049, 1120, 1140, 1164.

Prof. Fritz, “Geog. Distrib.,” Petermann’s Mitth., Oct. 1874.

Zehfuss, ‘Physikalische Theorie.’ Adelman, Frankfort.

‘Nature,’ iii. pp. 6, 7, 28, 104, 126, 346, 348, 510; iv. pp. 209, 213, 345, 497, 505; x. 211 (Ångström).

‘Edinburgh Astronomical Observations,’ vol. xiv. 1870-1877.

‘English Mechanic,’ No. 461 (January 23, 1874), pp. 445-447; and No. 462, pp. 475, 476.