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Moon illusion

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optical illusion which causes the Moon to appear larger near the horizon than it does higher up in the sky

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Leonardo da Vinci

René Descartes

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Arthur Schopenhauer

International Standard Book Number

natural satellite

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Lunar observation Optical illusions

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