Moon Illusion

[Roger Freedman <airboy@PHYSICS.UCSB.EDU>]

Here are two columns from science writer Lee Dye describing recent (1999)
psychological research into the origin of the "moon illusion."

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DyeHard/dyehard000105.html
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DyeHard/dyehard000112.html

The first of these includes links to some additional useful and
illuminating web pages.

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Roger A. Freedman
Department of Physics and College of Creative Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara

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