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MY duty to-night, a pleasant one, although it is tinged with a certain sense of disappointment, is to bring before you the observations which were made of the recent eclipse in Spain and Sicily, to connect them with our former knowledge, and to show in what points our knowledge has been extended. In these observations, as you know, we had nothing to do with the sun as ordinarily visible, but with the most delicate phenomenon which becomes visible to us during eclipses. I refer to the Corona.
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LOCKYER, J. On the Recent Solar Eclipse* . Nature 4, 230–233 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/004230a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/004230a0