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THIS essay, an extract from a more comprehensive A work on the problem of twilight, which the author hopes to conclude in the course of this year, and embodying a lecture recently delivered by him both in Hamburg and Leipzig, describes the phenomena of twilight in general and of the remarkable sky-glows of the winter of 1883 in particular, with clearness, fullness, and exactness, and explains the physical causes of these phenomena from a special and mature study of that universally interesting field of observation, by numerous highly pertinent and illustrative experiments, and altogether in a manner which should bring home, even to the unscientific reader, a new sense and a new intelligence of the painting offered anew every morning and evening to the study and delight of man universally.
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Twilight 1 . Nature 32, 321 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/032321a0
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