Site Guide
WELCOME
Site Guide
PROLOGUE: the History of the World
Prodigies: a plug for my book on Blurb
CHRONOLOGY
Maps
FEATURES
Cabinet of Curiosities
Meteor: Bolides over Britain
Tunguska Diary
Dark Days
Fire of 1783
Miasma: The Blue Mist Mystery
It Happened Today
UFOS: A Natural History
Natural Phenomena in Postcards
Balloon High: Aerostatic Altitude Ascents
The Frost of 1814
THE ANCIENT NATURAL WORLD
Oikuomene
Darkness at Noon
Pliny’s Universe
Ptolemy’s Universe
Signs in the Sky
Dark Ages
The Walls of Heaven
ART GALLERIES OF NATURAL PHENOMENA
The Art Gallery of Natural Phenomena
Art Gallery II
Comet Gallery
Moon Gallery
Storm Gallery
Ball Lightning Gallery
Halo Gallery
Tornado Gallery
Weather Gallery
Optical Phenomena Photo Gallery
PLANETS
Transits of Venus
Neith: The Satellite of Venus
Victorian Mars
Naked-Eye Solar System
Telescopic Solar System
COMETS
The Comet of 1861
Donati’s Comet, 1858
The Comet of 1843
Herschel and Halley’s Comet, 1835
The Chatfield Comets
Halley Gallery
Hale-Bopp Diary
Hale-Bopp Gallery
EARTHQUAKES
Year of Earthquakes: 1750
Lisbon Earthquake
Arica Earthquake
ECLIPSES
Total and Annular Eclipses in the British Isles
The Great Solar Eclipse of 1858
La Nuit: 11 August 1999
TORNADOES
Waterspouts
A Waterspout in Massachusetts
A Tornado in Sussex
A Tornado in Wales
A Tornado in Iowa
The Jasper Tornado
Tornadoes in East Anglia
Tornado Days
Tornadoes in Britain - the 18th Century
Tornadoes in Britain - the 19th Century
VOLCANOES
Pelee and Soufriere
Vesuvius: AD 79
Volcanic Twilights
Volcanic Postcards
