measure of the sun at the solstice in mid-June.
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.
[Footnote: At A is written sole (the sun), at B terra (the earth).]
890.
Because the eye is small it can only see the image of the sun as of a small size. If the eye were as large as the sun it