Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 680 g
Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 680 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-850862-5
Verlag: ACADEMIC
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 which 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.
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Fachgebiete
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Experimentelle Psychologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
- Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Geschichte der Physik
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
- Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astronomie: Sachbuch
- Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Sonnensystem: Sonne und Planeten
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie
- Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Geschichte der Mathematik
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
Weitere Infos & Material
- Foreword by Richard Gregory
- Preface
- 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
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Summary of scientific developments relating to the moon illusion
