 | Amédée Guillemin - Astronomy - 1867 - 588 pages
...this singular phenomenon explained ? By an error of our judgment. When the luminous disk of the body is near the horizon, it seems placed beyond all the objects on the surface of the Earth interposed between us and it, and therefore more distant than at the zenith where nothing separates... | |
 | Amédée Guillemin - Astronomy - 1872 - 460 pages
...this singular phenomenon explained ? By an error of our judgment. When the luminous disk of the body is near the horizon, it seems placed beyond all the objects on the surface of the Earth interposed between us and it, andb herefore more distant than at the zenith where nothing separates... | |
 | Amédée Victor Guillemin - 1876 - 488 pages
...this singular phenomenon explained ? By an error of o ir judgment. When the luminous disk of the body is near the horizon, it seems placed beyond all the objects on the surface of the Earth inturI o;ed between us and it, and therefore more distant than at the zenith, wheie nothing separates... | |
 | Joseph Anthony Gillet - Astronomy - 1882 - 496 pages
...shorter than CM' : hence OM' is about four thousand miles shorter than OM. Notwithstanding the moon is much nearer when at the zenith than at the horizon,...larger in proportion as we judge it to be more distant. 91. The Apparent Size of the Moon increased by Irradiation. — In the case of the moon, the word apparent... | |
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OM' is about four thousand miles shorter than OM. Notwithstanding the moon is much nearer when at the zenith than at the horizon, it seems to us much larger at the horizon. This is a pure illusion, as we become convinced when we measure the disc with... 