A marvellous sign and a fiery globe: a medieval English report of ball lightning. (26th January 2022)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- A marvellous sign and a fiery globe: a medieval English report of ball lightning. (26th January 2022)
- Main Title:
- A marvellous sign and a fiery globe: a medieval English report of ball lightning
- Authors:
- Gasper, Giles E. M.
Tanner, Brian K. - Abstract:
- Abstract : 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. (Image courtesy of Mircea Goia.)
- Is Part Of:
- Weather. Volume 77:Number 7(2022)
- Journal:
- Weather
- Issue:
- Volume 77:Number 7(2022)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 77, Issue 7 (2022)
- Year:
- 2022
- Volume:
- 77
- Issue:
- 7
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2022-0077-0007-0000
- Page Start:
- 232
- Page End:
- 234
- Publication Date:
- 2022-01-26
- Subjects:
- Meteorology -- Periodicals
Weather -- Great Britain -- Periodicals
551.1 - Journal URLs:
- http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/113388511/home?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 ↗
http://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1477-8696/ ↗
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1002/wea.4144 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0043-1656
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