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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
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Subject: re: the moon
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Date: Mon, 24-Oct-83 12:16:22 EDT
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The Moon Illusion has a venerable history, with theories going back to Plato.
Some of what has been written to the net is now accepted as giving part
of the illusion, but the atmospheric idea isn't one of them. The effect
of the atmosphere is to squash the shape top to bottom into an ellipse,
not to magnify it in any dimension. For a partial discussion, see Scientific
American about 10 years ago (look in an index volume in the library). The
illusion has many parts, and I can't remember most of them.

Martin Taylor