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An Account of a Fire-Ball, Seen at Hornsey, by William Hirst (1753)

- April 9, 2012 in fireball, meteorite, non-article, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Royal Society, texts, Texts: 18th, Texts: Non-fiction, Texts: Science

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An Account of a Fire-Ball, Seen at Hornsey, by William Hirst, F. R. S. Communicated in a Letter to Samuel Mead, Esq; F. R. S Hirst, in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Vol. 48 Pg 773–776; 1753; Royal Society of London, London

“I was then going down the hill adjoining to the south side of Hornsey-church, and was not a little surprised to find myself suddenly surrounded by a light equal to that of the full moon, though the moon (which was then four days old) had been set about fifty minutes.”

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