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Re: Plumb-line horizon vs. geocentric horizon
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2005 Feb 4, 02:27 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2005 Feb 4, 02:27 -0500
Euler comes to the same conclusion, after careful consideration of all other possibilities. This is in his wonderful book "Letters to a German princess", where he explains to her the current state of science (with much emphasis on longitude too, of course. The news about chronometer just had reached him from England when he wrote this, but he mentions this news with caution and scepticism). Alex. On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Peter Fogg wrote: > Quoting Alexandre Eremenko > > Why the Moon (and especially the Sun) look > > much larger when they are close to the horizon? > > Because the sky is perceived as a shallow bowl. > The bodies near the horizon, being further away, are bigger.
