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What can the citizen know of sights like this Mallorca sunset? (Photo: Andrés Nieto Porras/CC BY-SA 2.0) 6. Dewey, American Journal of Science, 1840. As he passes, however, to the middle and western parts of the State of New York, the sunsets become still more beautiful, and often absolutely splendid.”

The clearness of the atmosphere, and the brilliancy of the colors, fasten his gaze upon the west as the sun has just sunk behind the mountains. “To a native of New England, few objects appear more beautiful than the setting of the sun as it appears from the hills and valleys of her mountains. “Book Review: ‘Calavar,’” The North American Review, 1835. “The mists were rolling away from his feet in huge wreaths, which gradually, as they became thinner, received and transmitted the rays of an evening sun, and were lighted up with a golden and crimson radiance, glorious to behold, and increasing every moment in splendor.” You see very faint imitations of such lustre in England.” The clouds were like great wings of gold and yellow and rose-colour, with a smaller minute sprinkle in one spot, like a shower of glowing stones from a volcano. “There was a fine sunset over the hills of Granada.

John Howison, “Sunset in Different Climes,” Times Telescope, 1826 3. “Where, after all, shall we find Sunsets equal to British ones? Where such serenely beautiful horizons-such rich and varied dyes–such mellowness of light-such objects to be irradiated by it-and evenings so happily adapted for contemplating them? The mixture of fierceness and gloom in a West India Sunset, call the mind the coarseness of the people there, and the implacable deadliness of the climate the milder glories of one in the Southern Atlantic, can be enjoyed at sea only, where everything else is unpleasing the effect of a similar scene in America is injured by want of objects of antiquity, and of the lofty associations connected with them and in India, the tropical glare attending the departure of day, forces us to imprison ourselves while it is taking place, and to remember that we are in exile.” John Flamstead, Philosophical Transactions, 1669Ī British sunset, feat. “By which Tables on Saturday April 9th, at the time of Sun-set, supposed at 7 ho. Here are the most vivid sunsets we found.

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Many, many people rose to the challenge: Newspapers, memoirs, travelogues, and scientific treatises are all full of charmingly lurid paeans to the colorful end of the day, tinted further by a variety of forces.Ĭriteria for this collection was scrupulous: no fictional or metaphorical sunsets (otherwise, you open yourself up to poetry-a terrible wormhole) no sunrises (too sanctimonious) pre-1866 only.

The possibilities are as large as the sun itself.īut before color photography was invented in 1866, those who wanted to get across their latest and/or greatest sunset experience had only two available modes: painting, and extremely purple prose. You can Youtube or Vine a variety of sunsets over the course of a particular timespan. You can Snap a sunset, then ‘gram it for good measure. Nowadays, we can show off our sunset-spotting prowess across a variety of media. “Sunset Over the Golden Horn,” by Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky, from 1866.

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