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Author : James Thomas Enright
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Moon illusion examined from a new point of view written by James Thomas Enright and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maurice Hershenson
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1134737459
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book The Moon Illusion written by Maurice Hershenson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume attempts to answer one of mankind's oldest puzzles -- why the moon appears to be larger and closer on the horizon than when it is high in the sky. Over the centuries, many viable solutions have been proposed for this psychological phenomenon. The Moon Illusion presents papers by major theorists striving to explain the illusion and providing commentaries on the works of others. Research on the moon illusion has been scattered throughout journals in many disciplines including philosophy, physiology, physics, and psychology. As the first publication to present a comprehensive treatment of the problem, this book is of vital interest to professionals whose major concern is visual perception, experimental psychology, or the neurosciences. Of additional interest to those whose focus is physics or astronomy.
Author : Ernest Naylor
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019103617X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Moonstruck written by Ernest Naylor and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, the influence of the full Moon on humans and animals has featured in folklore and myths. Yet it has become increasingly apparent that many organisms really are influenced indirectly, and in some cases directly, by the lunar cycle. Breeding behaviour among some marine animals has been demonstrated to be controlled by internal circalunar biological clocks, to the point where lunar-daily and lunar-monthly patterns of Moon-generated tides are embedded in their genes. Yet, intriguingly, Moon-related behaviours are also found in dry land and fresh water species living far beyond the influence of any tides. In Moonstruck, Ernest Naylor dismisses the myths concerning the influence of the Moon, but shows through a range of fascinating examples the remarkable real effects that we are now finding through science. He suggests that since the advent of evolution on Earth, which occurred shortly after the formation of the Moon, animals evolved adaptations to the lunar cycle, and considers whether, if Moon-clock genes occur in other animals, they also might exist in us?
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Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9781422371046
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 119, No. 2, 1975) written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vincent Walsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521460613
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Perceptual Constancy written by Vincent Walsh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-13 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is not always truly reflected in what we see. The brain creates images, fills in gaps and even at times constructs fictions. This book brings together experts from several diverse fields to present state of the art accounts of how the visual world enters two small holes in our heads and is reconstructed to give us the rich impressions of color, movement, and shape.
Author : Dan Burton
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004153705
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book De Visione Stellarum written by Dan Burton and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this critical edition of Nicole Oresme's 14th-century treatise on atmospheric refraction, Oresme uses optics and infinitesimals to help solve this vexing problem of astronomy, proposing that light travels along a curve through the atmosphere, centuries before Hooke and Newton.
Author : Eric Chassefiere
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1786307170
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (863 download)
Download or read book Physics of the Terrestrial Environment, Subtle Matter and Height of the Atmosphere written by Eric Chassefiere and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery, in the middle of the 17th century, of both the weight of air and the law governing its elasticity transformed the status of the atmosphere from that of a purely mathematical object to that of a complex and highly variable physical system. In the context of rapidly intensifying experimentation and observation, the nature of the atmosphere was therefore the subject of a host of hypotheses, which 18th century scholars tried to reconcile with a coherent physical approach. In particular, this was achieved by the conceptualization of invisible or “subtle” materials, thought to be closely linked to atmospheric stratification. Subtle matter was introduced, largely to reconcile contradictory results concerning the estimation of the height of the atmosphere. These estimations were based on different methods, mainly using the observation of meteors and the refracted and reflected light of stars. Taking as its common thread the question of the height of the atmosphere, which was omnipresent in the texts at the time, this book traces the history of the discovery of the atmosphere and the many questions it generated.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9781422371084
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 119, No. 6, 1975) written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Contribution from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography written by Scripps Institution of Oceanography and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprints from various publications.
Author : Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 910 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Contributions from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography written by Scripps Institution of Oceanography and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprints from various publications.
Author : Helen Ross
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780198508625
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Mystery of The Moon Illusion written by Helen Ross and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-07-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thousands of years, one scientific puzzle has fascinated and perplexed the greatest philosophers, mathematicians, physicists, and psychologists - why do the moon and sun appear so much larger on the horizon than when high up in the sky? Exploring the theories from antiquity to now, the 'Mystery of the Moon Illusion' is the definitive book on a mystery that has fascinated and tested the greatest minds throughout the ages.
Author : Anna Marie Eleanor Roos
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Luminaries in the Natural World written by Anna Marie Eleanor Roos and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates that the luminaries were transformed from peerless bodies that radiated powerful forces into objects of scientific study, and in the case of the moon, a place to visit imaginatively with its own geography and probable inhabitants. Utilizing literary, historical, and visual evidence, Luminaries in the Natural World indicates how and why these changes in solar and lunar perceptions occurred among the scientific community from 1400 to 1680, breaking new ground with its emphasis on influences from cartography, astrology, and hermeticism.
Author : Albany Female Academy
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Report of the ... Annual Examination of the Albany Female Academy written by Albany Female Academy and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Refractionist written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick A. Heelan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520908090
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Space-Perception and the Philosophy of Science written by Patrick A. Heelan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the phenomenological tradition in the philosophy of science and philosophy of nature, Patrick Heelan concludes that perception is a cognitive, world-building act, and is therefore never absolute or finished.
Author : Oswaal Editorial Board
Publisher : Oswaal Books and Learning Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9357286977
Total Pages : 755 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (572 download)
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