Olmsted, Denison, 1791-1859. [from old catalog] · New York, R. B. Collins · leaf 56
ises or after it sets, some portion of its light isconveyed to us by means of numerous reflections from 71. To what is the apparent enlargement, of the sun andmoon when near the horizon owing ? Are these bodies seenunder a greater angle when in the horizon than in the zenith 1To what general law of… … the atmosphere. Let AB (Fig. 9,) be the horizon ofthe spectator at A, and let SS be a ray of light from thesun when it is two or three degrees below the horizon.Then to the observer at A, the segment of the atmos-phere ABS would be illuminated. To a spectator at C,whose horizon was CD, the small…
Astronomy
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