Sacred Texts
Age of Reason
Index
XV. Astronomy Index
Previous
Next
Buy this Book at Amazon.com
The Da Vinci Notebooks
889.
WHY THE SUN APPEARS LARGER WHEN SETTING THAN AT NOON, WHEN IT IS NEAR TO US.
Every object seen through a curved medium seems to be of larger size
than it is.
464
Footnotes
153:464 : At A is written sole (the sun), at B terra (the
earth).
Next: 890.