A wind rose from the chapter “Of Aiery Meteors”—then considered a part
of “physics”—in Charles Morton’s manuscript in the American Philosophical
Society Library.
Photos courtesy of the American Philosophical Society.
Seventeenth
century discussion of the optics of the rainbow, from Morton’s System
of Physicks.
A wind rose from the chapter “Of Aiery Meteors”—then considered a part
of “physics”—in Charles Morton’s manuscript in the American Philosophical
Society Library. 
Seventeenth
century discussion of the optics of the rainbow, from Morton’s System
of Physicks.
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