A Tertiary Rainbow

@article{Lewis1885ATR,
  title={A Tertiary Rainbow},
  author={T. C. Lewis},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1885},
  volume={32},
  pages={626-626}
}
  • T. Lewis
  • Published 1 October 1885
  • Environmental Science
  • Nature
THE supposed tertiary rainbow about which I sent a note a month ago must have been a halo formed by ice crystals, as readers of NATURE will perhaps have inferred merely from the recorded distinctness of the colours. It did not occur to me that ice crystals would be found in a horizontal direction from here, over the hot plains of the Punjab on the evening of an August day. But I have since calculated the size of the tertiary rainbow and the order of colours in it, and the calculation leaves no… 
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