Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena

Fülszöveg

handbook of
LNLSIJAL NATURAL
PHENOMENA
WILLIAM R. CORLISS
Illustrated throughout with line drawings by JOHN C. HOLDEN
Science is able to explain almost all the physical universe, but there are still some perplexing mysteries among us, some conundrums for which modern science just has no answers.'Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena collects more than 500 eyewitness accounts of natures greatest mysteries, all of them documented in major scientific journals. Compiled from the files of such magazines as Science, Nature, and Meteorological Magazine, this astounding collection serves as an authoritative guide to nature's most strange— but true—phenomena.
Experience colored snow; showers composed of such unlikely objects as fish, or snakes, or toads; rolling balls of lightning; cloudless rain; rain that sparkles; maverick waterspouts; tides out of the moon's control; unexplained bursts of noise near water, called a mist-pouifer; and hundreds of other bizarre occurrences.... Tovább

Fülszöveg

handbook of
LNLSIJAL NATURAL
PHENOMENA
WILLIAM R. CORLISS
Illustrated throughout with line drawings by JOHN C. HOLDEN
Science is able to explain almost all the physical universe, but there are still some perplexing mysteries among us, some conundrums for which modern science just has no answers.'Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena collects more than 500 eyewitness accounts of natures greatest mysteries, all of them documented in major scientific journals. Compiled from the files of such magazines as Science, Nature, and Meteorological Magazine, this astounding collection serves as an authoritative guide to nature's most strange— but true—phenomena.
Experience colored snow; showers composed of such unlikely objects as fish, or snakes, or toads; rolling balls of lightning; cloudless rain; rain that sparkles; maverick waterspouts; tides out of the moon's control; unexplained bursts of noise near water, called a mist-pouifer; and hundreds of other bizarre occurrences.
Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena is not just for science buffs. It will fascinate everyone with its clear accounts of the mysteries that occur in what we choose to think of as our ordinary, everyday world.
William R. Corliss is a scientist turned writer. He has written dozens of articles and booklets on subjects ranging from electric power generators to telecommunications. Corliss is the author of more than thirty books, including Mysterious Universe and The Unfathomed Mind.


Three intersecting wheels of light; one spinning clockioise, two counterclockwise
This remarkable volume collects more than 500 eyewitness accounts of natures greatest mysteries, all of them odd and fascinating, all of them documented in major scientific journals, and none of them fully understood. Read about such strange phenomena as:
• Cloudless rain • Colored snow • Phosphorescent wheels
• Humming deserts • Multiple rainbows • Exploding hail
• Rocket lightning • Multicolored mock suns
and much more!
Everyone will be fascinated by these bizarre occurrences in our everyday world, proof that science has not yet been able to explain everything around us.
Double lunar rainbow with an intersecting arc Vissza