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amongst them Russia and Germany

In the right background are village stocks

Plate 3 from the book Description des expÚriences de la machine aÚrostatiques de MM

with long side whiskers

Found in the collection of the Courtauld Institute of Art

Terrestrial refraction mb-width 2564 amongst them Russia and GermanyPlate illustrating John Ross's report of the curious effects of refraction in Arctic latitudes. The observations were made on 22 September 1832 at North End Cape, Somerset Island, in the Canadian Arctic. Figure 1 shows the land 'as with no refraction, distant fourteen miles'; figure 2 shows 'the same land, with an iceberg four miles distant raised above the land'; figure 3 shows 'the same refracted in a different way on the same day.' Plate facing p.