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Nature 32, 89-90 (28 May 1885) | doi:10.1038/032089a0;

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A Note Relating to the History of the Aurora Borealis

SOPHUS TROMHOLT

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AMONG northern authors none has given the writers on the Aurora Borealis more to trouble than Peder Clausson Friis, 1566-1614, Minister at Undal, near the town of Mandal, in Southern Norway. This, for his time, very productive author, wrote, towards the end of the sixteenth century, a treatise, " About Greenlana." In.a second edition (about 1600) he added some extracts from the " Kings-mirror," l and among these, one about the Aurora Borealis.