Johann Christian Heuson, a little-known auroral scholar of the early 18th century

摘要

Heuson published two booklets of observations of the aurora of17/18 February, 1/2 March 1721, and 16/17 November 1729 together with contemporarythoughts about the subject. His work characterizes him as a well-educatedscholar familiar with contemporary auroral observations and theories. Heusonrejects views of the aurora as an omen or portent of divine wrath, butexplains the aurora as a natural phenomenon and is thus in line with otherwell-known auroral scholars of that time.