Terrestrial refraction Finish:Float frame Richard Sheridan

Richard Sheridan

View of Royal Exchange and the Bank of England on left

The accompanying text states that: 'A very large cylindrical spike of flowers terminates each branch

with school children playing

Terrestrial refraction Finish:Float frame Richard SheridanPlate 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.