A marvellous sign and a fiery globe: a medieval English report of ball lightning

Autor: Giles E. M. Gasper, Brian K. Tanner
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Weather, 2022, Vol.77(7), pp.232-234 [Peer Reviewed Journal]
ISSN: 1477-8696
0043-1656
DOI: 10.1002/wea.4144
Popis: 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 England by nearly 450 years. The meteorological descriptions in Gervase's 1195 report are examined in the context of the purpose of the chronicle and we compare them with modern reports of ball lightning.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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