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Re: Fata Morgan images set me thinking
From: Bob Goethe
Date: 2017 Apr 20, 11:07 -0700
From: Bob Goethe
Date: 2017 Apr 20, 11:07 -0700
T. S. Lecky tells an engaging story on pp. 64-65 of the 1884 edition...
(available for download at https://books.google.com/books?id=BzIAAAAAQAAJ)
...about how a group of islands appeared to shift its position by several miles, depending on whether one passed the islands in the morning or afternoon, as one took his sextant sight.
See attached.
Bob
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