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A marvellous sign and a fiery globe: a medieval English report of ball lightning
Autor: Giles E. M. Gasper, Brian K. Tanner
Publikováno v: Weather, 2022, Vol.77(7), pp.232-234 [Peer Reviewed Journal]
We describe an entry in a twelfth century monastic chronicle, compiled and composed by Gervase of Canterbury (c. 1145–c. 1210), which gives a credible description of ball lightning. It predates the earliest known report of the phenomenon from Engla
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https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.4144
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Magnifying Grains of Sand, Seeds, and Blades of Grass: Optical Effects in Robert Grosseteste’s De iride (On the Rainbow) (circa 1228–1230)
Autor: Rebekah C. White, Laura K. Young, Sigbjørn Sønnesyn, Giles E. M. Gasper, Tom McLeish, Joshua S. Harvey, Brian K. Tanner, Hannah E. Smithson
Publikováno v: Isis, 2021, Vol.112(1), pp.93-107 [Peer Reviewed Journal]
In his treatise On the Rainbow (De iride), composed nearly four hundred years before the first known telescope, the English polymath Robert Grosseteste identified three striking optical effects: distant objects can be rendered close by; close-by larg
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https://doi.org/10.1086/713724
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A cooking pot lit by fire
Autor: Giles E M Gasper, Brian K Tanner
Publikováno v: Astronomy & Geophysics. 64:1.36-1.37
Giles E M Gasper and Brian K Tanner discuss a newly-identified 12th century report by an English chronicler which appears to describe solar prominences.
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https://doi.org/10.1093/astrogeo/atac091
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Anselm of Canterbury’s De concordia
Autor: Giles E. M. Gasper
Publikováno v: Anselm of Canterbury: Communities, Contemporaries and Criticism ISBN: 9789004468238
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https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004468238_003
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'The moon quivered like a snake': A medieval chronicler, lunar explosions, and a puzzle for modern interpretation
Autor: Giles E. M. Gasper, Brian K. Tanner
Publikováno v: Endeavour, 2020, Vol.44(4), pp.100750 [Peer Reviewed Journal]
Despite some scepticism, the suggestion by Hartung in 1976 that the report in the chronicle of Gervase of Canterbury corresponded to a meteorite impact with the moon in 1178, creating the Giordano Bruno crater, retains considerable support, particula
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35568617
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