The green Ray

the green Ray is a novel of Jules Verne published in 1882, inspired of the optical Phénomène éponyme: the “green Ray”.

History

The heroes seek to see this ray with much patience in trimmings of the Scotland (unfavorable to its observation because of the fogs).

After many attempts at observation concluding itself by failures caused by the clouds or the sail from a boat, to far, which comes to hide the sun to them, the phenomenon will arise, but each of the two main characters will be too occupied discovering the love in the eyes of the other to pay attention to the horizon.

List characters

Miss Helena Campbell
Elisabeth, so called Lady Bess
Main Mac-Fyne
Samuel Melvill, also called Sam Melvill
Sébastian Melvill, also called Sib Melvill
Patrick Oldimer
Captain John Olduck
Partridge
Olivier Sinclair
Aristobulus Ursiclos

Base scientific

The existence of this phenomenon of green Rayon (gleam of color emerald when the sun disappears just on the sea) is attested by several testimonys, but seems to occur only under conditions of temperature and hygroscopy determined, which returns the observation of the rare phenomenon in practice, and sometimes disputed. The idea contained in the novel according to which it would be possible to envisage where and when to observe the green ray remains however a License of author .

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