yellow and red; pale blue, pale red. The Di-^ ameter of the fecond Crown measured from the middle of the yellow and red on one fide of the Sun, to the middle of the fame Colour on the other fide was 9 Degrees, or thereabouts. The Diameters of the first and third I had not time to measure, but that of the first feemed to be about five or fix Degrees, and that of the third about twelve. The like Crowns appear fometimes about the Moon; for in the beginning of the Year 1664, Febr. 19th at Night, I faw two fuch Crowns about her. The Diameter of the firft or innermost was about three Degrees, and that of the fecond about five Degrees and an half. Next about the Moon was a Circle of white, and next about that the inner Crown, which was of a bluish green within next the white, and of a yellow and red without, and next about these Colours were blue and green on the infide of the outward Crown, and red on the outside of it. At the fame time there appear'd a Halo about 22 Degrees 35' diftant from the center of the Moon. It was elliptical, and its long Diameter was perpendicular to the Horizon, verging below fartheft from the Moon. I am told that the Moon has fometimes three or more concentrick Crowns of Colours encompaffing one another next about her Body. The more equal the globules of Water or Ice are to one another, the more Crowns of Colours will. арand the Colours will be the more lively. pear, The Halo at the distance of 22 Degrees from

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