Appendices
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.