Latin Terminology Relating to Aurorae,Comets,Meteors and Novae

Schove D. J. , “Solar variations, climatic changes, and related geophysical problems”, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, xcv (1961), 605–22.

Corpus scriptorum historiae Byzantinae (50 vols, Bonn, 1828–97).

Botley C. , “Aurora in S.W. Asia”, Journal of the British Astronomical Association, lxxxiv (1957), 293–6.

Seneca , Naturales quaestiones, Latin text and English translation by Corcoran T. H. (London, 1971).

Obsequens Julius , De prodigiis (supplementum Lycosthenis) (Lyon, 1720).

Secundus Plinius C. , Naturalis historia, Latin text and English translation by Rackham H. (London, 1958).

Thorndike L. , History of magic and experimental science, vols i-iv (New York, 1923–34).

Link F. , “Observations et catalogue des aurores boréales apparues en Occident de — 626 à 1600”, Geofysikalni sbornik, no. 173 (1962), 297–391.

Newton R. R. , Medieval chronicles and the rotation of the Earth (Baltimore and London, 1972).

Annales Casinates; Monumenta Germaniae historica, Scriptores, iii (Hanover, 1839), 172.

Imoto Susumu and Hasegawa Ichiro , “Historical records of meteor showers in China, Korea and Japan”, Smithsonian contributions to astrophysics, ii (1958), 131–44.

Keimatsu Mitsuo , “A chronology of aurorae and sunspots observed in China, Korea and Japan”, Annals of science of Kanazawa University, vii (1970), 3.

Dall'Olmo U. , “Meteors, meteor showers and meteorites in the Middle Ages: From European medieval sources”, Journal for the history of astronomy, ix (1978), 123–34.

Villani Iohannes , Historia universalis; Muratori L. A. , Rerum Italicarum scriptores, xiii (Milan, 1728), 439.

Dall'Olmo U. , “An additional list of auroras from European sources, from a.d. 450 to a.d. 1466”, Journal of geophysical research, lxxxiv (1979), 1525–35.

Schove D. J. , “Sunspots, aurorae and blood rain: The spectrum of time”, Isis, xlii (1951), 133–8.

As for a textual distinction between igneus and sanguineus see, e.g., Dall'Olmo , op. cit. (ref. 15), 1529.

Dall'Olmo , op. cit. (ref. 15), 1526.

Carmina Fredegarii; Monumenta Germaniae historica, Poetae, iii, pt 2 (Berlin, 1886), 321.

Petrie W. , The aurora borealis (Oxford, 1963).

Barrett A. A. , “Observations of comets in Greek and Roman sources before a.d. 410”, Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, lxxii (1978), 81–106.

Lydus Iohannes , De ostentis; Corpus scriptorum historiae Byzantinae, xxiii (Bonn, 1837), 288–90.

Choniathes Niceta , Thesaurus; Migne , Patrologia Graeca, cxxxix (Paris, 1894), 1116–17.

Blemmydes Nicephorus , Epitome physica; Migne , Patrologia Graeca, cxlii (Paris, 1865), 1131–5.

Villani Iohannes , op. cit. (ref. 14), 806. See also: Ripalta Alberto , Annales Placentini; Muratori L. A. , Rerum Italicarum scriptores, xx (Milan, 1731), 931.

Thorndike L. , Latin treatises on comets (Chicago, 1950), 246.

The works of Aristotle, iii (Oxford, 1931).

Yoke Ho Peng , “Ancient and medieval observations of comets and novae in Chinese sources”, Vistas in astronomy, v (1962), 127–225.

Choniathes Niceta , op. cit. (ref. 23), 1116.

Blemmydes Nicephorus , op. cit. (ref. 24), 1131.

Dall'Olmo , op. cit. (ref. 13).

See, e.g.: S. Paschasii expositio in Mattheum; Migne , Patrologia Latina, cxx (Paris, 1852), 817, and B. F. Albini seu Alcuini Commentum in Apocalipsin, Migne , Patrologia Latina, c (Paris, 1851), 1127.

Singer C. , From magic to science (New York, 1958).

Imoto Susumu and Hasegawa Ichiro , op. cit. (ref. 11).

Ruodolphi Fuldenses Annales; Monumenta Germaniae historica, Scriptores, i (Hanover, 1826), 361.

Augustodunensis Honorius , De imagine mundi; Migne, Patrologia Latina, clxxii (Paris, 1895), 137.

Isidori Hispaliensis Episcopi Etymologiarum libri XX, iii (Oxford, 1911), 71.

Annales Veterocellenses; Monumenta Germaniae historica, Scriptores, xvi (Hanover, 1859), 45.

Humbolt A. , Cosmos, Italian edition (4 vols), i (Venice, 1860), 357.

Chronica Sancti Benedicti; Monumenta Germaniae historica, Scriptores, iii (Hanover, 1839), 203.

Annales Dorenses; Monumenta Germaniae historica, Scriptores, xxvii (Hanover, 1885), 519.

Helinandi Frigidi Montis Monachi Chronicon; Migne , Patrologia Latina, ccxii (Paris, 1855), 921.

d'Aphrodias Alexandre , Commentaire sur les Méteorés d'Aristote (Louvain, 1968), 36.

Tsê-Tsung Hsi , “A new catalog of ancient novae”, Smithsonian contributions to astrophysics, ii (1958), 109–30.

Brecher K. Lieber E. Lieber A. E. , “A Near-eastern sighting of the supernova explosion of 1054”, Nature, cclxxiii (1978), 728–30.

Malvecius Jacobus , Chronicon; Muratori L. A. , Rerum Italicarum scriptores, xiv (Milan, 1729), 873.