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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: mystery of the moon illusion
    sub title: exploring size perception
  name:
    name part: Ross, Helen Elizabeth
    name part: 1935-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Plug, Cornelis.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2002
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (viii, 277 pages : illustrations.)
  abstract: "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? Now, two leading psychologists have provided a compelling account of this fascinating illusion. Taking us through the history, the characters involved, the attempts made to explain the illusion, through to modern day studies of visual perception, the book is the most comprehensive account of this puzzle so far. This is a work that will remain, for some time to come, the definitive book on a mystery that has fascinated and tested the greatest minds throughout the ages. Accessibly written, it will appeal to readers of popular science, along with those within the disciplines of psychology, mathematics, astronomy, and philosophy, from undergraduate upwards."--Jacket.
  table of contents: 1. The celestial illusions -- 2. The real sizes of the moon and sun -- 3. Perceiving size -- 4. Measuring the moon illusion -- 5. Atmospheric refraction -- 6. Aerial perspectives -- 7. In the eye of the beholder -- 8. The vault of the heavens -- 9. So near and yet so far -- 10. Sizing up the moon -- 11. The angle of regard -- 12. A question of balance -- 13. Conclusions and conundrums -- App. Summary of scientific developments relating to the moon illusion.
  note: Helen E. Ross, Cornelis Plug.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-265) and indexes.
  note: English.
  subject:
    geographic code: zmo----
  subject:
    topic: Optical illusions
  subject:
    topic: Size perception
  subject:
    geographic: Moon
  subject:
    topic: Optical Illusions
  subject:
    topic: Size Perception
  subject:
    geographic: Moon
  subject:
    topic: Illusions d'optique
  subject:
    topic: Perception de la taille
  subject:
    geographic: Lune
  subject:
    topic: optical illusion
  subject:
    topic: Optical illusions
  subject:
    topic: Size perception
  subject:
    geographic: Moon
  subject:
    topic: Neuroscience
  subject:
    topic: Human Anatomy & Physiology
  subject:
    topic: Health & Biological Sciences
  classification: QP495 .R67 2002
  classification: 152.14/8
  classification: 2002 K-637
  classification: WW 105 R824m 2002
  classification: 77.41
  classification: CP 2500
  related item:
    identifier: (DLC) 2002072659
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Mystery of the moon illusion : exploring size perception
    name:
      name part: Ross, Helen Elizabeth, 1935-
    origin info:
      publisher: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011
    identifier: (OCoLC)49936179
  identifier: 9780191584893
  identifier: 0191584894
  identifier: 019850862X
  identifier: 9780198508625
  identifier: 2002072659
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: SFB
    record creation date: 220207
    record change date: 20260318165131.5
    record identifier: in00005697991
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng