mist-banks

Updated: May 17, 2025

Proctor regarded it as an effect of diffraction; Stanislas Meunier, of oblique reflection from overlying mist-banks; Flammarion considers it possible that companion-canals might, under special circumstances, be evoked by refraction as a kind of mirage. But none of these speculations are really admissible, when all the facts are taken into account.

Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke - A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century: Fourth Edition