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The Sun/Moon Illusion in a Medieval Irish Astronomical Tract

The Irish Astronomical Tract is a 14th–15th century Gaelic document, based mainly on a Latin translation of the eighth-century Jewish astronomer Messahala. It contains a passage about the sun illusion—the apparent enlargement of celestial bodies when near the horizon compared to higher in the sky. T...

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Autor principal: Ross, Helen E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6802797/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31735840
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vision3030039