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889.

WHY THE SUN APPEARS LARGER WHEN SETTING THAN AT NOON, WHEN IT IS NEAR TO US.

Every object seen through a curved medium seems to be of larger size than it is.

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Footnotes

153:464 : At A is written sole (the sun), at B terra (the earth).