Johnson's natural philosophy and key to philosophical charts : illustrated with 500 cuts; being reduced photographic copies of all the diagrams contained in the author's philosophical series of indestructible school charts ; for the use of schools and families (1878)
inverted, as if reflected by water. In this case both thetower and its image are seen. JfOS Figure 30.—Looming is an atmospheric phenomenoncaused by extraordinary refraction, by which objects, on the shores oflakes and seas, appear to be thrown up higher than their real positions.It is most common… … being the coldest, cause the rays, coming from a distant object, to be-come curved upward instead of downward in the passage. When some-stratum of the air acts as a reflector, as previously explained (402), tlie-object will not only be elevated but inverted, as shown in the diagram. 224 OPTICS. Fig…
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