| Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1828 - 480 pages
...It is remarked by the Norwegian Chronicle, that when their king lay with his fleet in Ronaldsvoe, " a great darkness drew over the sun, so that only a little ring was bright round his orb." The ancient historian thus afforded to modern science the means of exactly ascertaining the... | |
| Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1828 - 476 pages
...It is remarked by the Norwegian Chronicle, that when their king lay with his fleet in Ronaldsvoe, " a great darkness drew over the sun, so that only a little ring was bright round his orb." The ancient historian thus afforded to modern science the means of exactly ascertaining the... | |
| Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1831 - 670 pages
...laden with money and provisions. A remarkable event now took place: "as the fleet lay in Ronaldsvoe, a great darkness drew over the sun, so that only a little ring was bright round its orb, and so it continued for some hours." Such are the striking and simple expressions in which... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1841 - 524 pages
...It is recorded in the Norse chronicle of the expededition, that while the fleet lay at Ronaldsvoe " a great darkness drew over the sun, so that only a little ring was bright round his orb;" and it is found that the remarkable phenomenon of an annular eclipse must have been seen... | |
| Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1841 - 424 pages
...It is remarked by the Norwegian Chronicle, that when their king lay with his fleet in Ronaldsvoe, " a great darkness drew over the sun, so that only a little ring was bright round his orb." The ancient historian thus unconsciously afforded to modern science the means of exactly... | |
| Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1842 - 464 pages
...southernmost island of the Orkney group. " While King Haco lay in Ronaldsvo," says the annalist, " a great darkness drew over the sun, so that only a...round the sun, and it continued so for some hours." It is found that an annular eclipse of the sun was in fact visible at Ronaldsay on the 5th of August... | |
| Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1842 - 464 pages
...southernmost island of the Orkney group. " While King Haco lay in Ronaldsvo," says the annalist, " a great darkness drew over the sun, so that only a...round the sun, and it continued so for some hours." It is found that an annular eclipse of the sun was in fact visible at Ronaldsay on the 5th of August... | |
| 1842 - 1022 pages
...by Torfeus, and also noticed by Mr. Tytler, — that when Hakon lay with his fleet in Ronaldsvoe, " a great darkness drew over the sun, so that only a little ring was bright round his orb." This eclipse was afterwards calculated, and found to have taken place on the 5th of August,... | |
| 1842 - 840 pages
...Toifffius, and also noticed by Mr. Tytler, — that when Hakon lay with his fleet in Ronaldsvoe, " a great darkness drew over the sun, so that only a little ring was brght round his orb." This eclipse was afterwards calculated, and found to have taken place on the... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1845 - 530 pages
...It is recorded. in the Norse chronicle of the expedition, that while the fleet lay at Ronaldsvoe " a great darkness drew over the sun, so that only a little ring was bright round his orb ; " and it is found that the remarkable phenomenon of an annular eclipse must have been seen... | |
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