The first book to be published on the subject of the green flash was written by Dr. Marten Edgse Mulder in 1922. The "Green Ray" at Rising and Setting of the Sun. Dr. Mulder studied ophthalmology and wrote about the detrimental effects of staring at the sun.
Jules Vern, a science-fiction author best known for his novel A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, popularized the green flash in a book he wrote in 1882, The Green Ray. In his novel he describes the green flash as "a green which no artist could ever obtain on his palette, a green of which neither the varied tints of vegetation nor the shades of the most limpid sea could ever produce the like! If there is a green in Paradise, it cannot be but of this shade, which most surely is the true green of Hope."
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