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Re: Definition Drift, WAS: Bowditch 1995 Table 18
From: Bill B
Date: 2005 Feb 3, 15:24 -0500
From: Bill B
Date: 2005 Feb 3, 15:24 -0500
> Smyth's 1867 definition of "Horizon" was even more interesting: "The > apparent or visible circle which bounds our vision at sea; it is a line > which is described by the sky and water appearing to meet. This is > designated as the sensible horizon; the rational or true one being a great > circle of the heavens, parallel to the sensible horizon, Darn words! Looking up sensible and sensible horizon on the net a while back, and sensible is generally what we can see/perceive. Hence my confusion until I found the "nautical" meaning which you et al cleared up for me.