Image from a 16th-century broadsheet telling of a celestial apparition which occurred on March 2, 1561 over Nuremberg.
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Image from a 16th-century broadsheet telling of a celestial apparition which occurred on March 2, 1561 over Nuremberg.
One of hundreds of such accounts which appeared in Germany in the 1500s. Our latest post explores: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/celestial-phenomena-16th-century-germany/
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Image from a 16th-century broadsheet telling of a celestial apparition which occurred on March 2, 1561 over Nuremberg.
One of hundreds of such accounts which appeared in Germany in the 1500s. Our latest post explores: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/celestial-phenomena-16th-century-germany/
@publicdomainrev I like how with some of these you can actually tell which types of halos they saw. Not just sundogs and the usual 22-degree circles, but in some cases tangent arcs, light pillars, and some of the less-frequent circles!
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Image from a 16th-century broadsheet telling of a celestial apparition which occurred on March 2, 1561 over Nuremberg.
One of hundreds of such accounts which appeared in Germany in the 1500s. Our latest post explores: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/celestial-phenomena-16th-century-germany/
@publicdomainrev prints and graphics used to look so good -
Image from a 16th-century broadsheet telling of a celestial apparition which occurred on March 2, 1561 over Nuremberg.
One of hundreds of such accounts which appeared in Germany in the 1500s. Our latest post explores: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/celestial-phenomena-16th-century-germany/
@publicdomainrev I was about to say pretty much that. Without reading the text it looks like a SunDog.
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Image from a 16th-century broadsheet telling of a celestial apparition which occurred on March 2, 1561 over Nuremberg.
One of hundreds of such accounts which appeared in Germany in the 1500s. Our latest post explores: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/celestial-phenomena-16th-century-germany/
@publicdomainrev @juergen_hubert This seems like it might be relevant to your interests.
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@publicdomainrev @juergen_hubert This seems like it might be relevant to your interests.
@StryderNotavi @publicdomainrev
The early German broadsheets were full of strange celestial phenomena. I suspect but cannot prove that this tale originated from them:
