%0 Journal Article
%T Johann Christian Heuson, a little-known auroral scholar of the early 18th century
%A K. Schlegel
%A S. Silverman
%J History of Geo- and Space Sciences (HGSS)
%D 2011
%I Copernicus Publications
%R 10.5194/hgss-2-89-2011
%X Heuson published two booklets of observations of the aurora of 17/18 February, 1/2 March 1721, and 16/17 November 1729 together with contemporary thoughts about the subject. His work characterizes him as a well-educated scholar familiar with contemporary auroral observations and theories. Heuson rejects views of the aurora as an omen or portent of divine wrath, but explains the aurora as a natural phenomenon and is thus in line with other well-known auroral scholars of that time.
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