In his 1870 masterpiece, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, French
novelist Jules Verne wrote, 'About seven o'clock in the evening, the
Nautilus, half-immersed, was sailing in a sea of milk... The whole sky,
though lit by the sidereal rays, seemed black by contrast with the
whiteness of the waters.'
However, rather than describing something supernatural, Verne was referring to marine bioluminescence - or the glowing, chemically induced underwater light produced by living organisms.
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