The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 95
will havea collision. In Fig. ii we see a curious effect of the dis-tortion of perspective. The figure of the manlooking over the fence at the ball-game appearsto be actually taller than that of the small boywho is peeping through the knot-hole, but inreality it is a little shorter. The illusion is… … FIG. 3. than that of the man, as it really is; but the manbeing represented farther away, the mind drawsthe conclusion that he must be the taller, for ourdaily experience is that distant objects must belarger than near ones having the same angle ofextent. We see everything, in short, by the light…
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