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ON Sunday afternoon, May 29, while sitting in my yard, my twelve-year-old son called my attention to a rainbow which he had discovered while lying on his back looking up at the sky. The local time here was 5.40 p.m., and the sun, therefore, about an hour and a half high. The bow was in the west, and about 70 degrees from the horizon, with its convex side to the sun. The colours were fairly well brought out, the red being on the convex side of the arc, and the violet on the concave side. The figure on p. 132 of Tait's “Light” shows a short arc near the zenith, which is a fair representation of what was seen here. I have not read an account of what was seen by Helvetius further than is contained in Prof. Tait's book, and do not know whether the arc seen by him near the zenith showed the rainbow colours. In this case I do not see any of the other halos seen by Helvetius. There were but few very thin clouds, and no rain at all.
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MORELAND, S. A High Rainbow. Nature 58, 151 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058151c0
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