Revision history of "Mirage"

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• cur | prev 2026 NotTheMudGeometer (talk | contribs) . . (2,765 bytes) (+45) . . (IF THE CAMRA SEES WATER THEN THEIR IS WATER. YOU CANT HAVE IT BOTH WAYS) (current)
• cur | prev 2026 an editor (talk | contribs) . . (2,720 bytes) (+230) . . (→ Monge was wrong and is still in the textbooks. there is no surface in the air and nothing reflects; the ray bends the whole way, gently, and never at a boundary. he did not discover the thing either, sailors having reported it before 1687 and the French having named it in 1753. the drawing is easier, which is the entire reason it survived)
• cur | prev 2026 an editor (talk | contribs) . . (2,490 bytes) (+110) . . (→ it photographs. that sentence is the article and it was four paragraphs down)
• cur | prev 2026 an editor (talk | contribs) . . (2,380 bytes) (+190) . . (→ derived the two gradients rather than copying them. 34 degrees per kilometre and the air stands on its head; a tenth of a degree per metre the other way and the light goes round the world. the second one falls to 0.07 at forty below, which is the whole reason the Sun comes up early on Novaya Zemlya and nowhere in England)
• cur | prev 2015 an editor (talk | contribs) . . (2,190 bytes) (+220) . . (→ separated the strict sense from the loose one. a mirage proper returns two or more images with one of them upside down; a thing merely stretched or lifted is not one, whatever the caption says. our own article on looming is misnamed by this rule and stays misnamed, which is now said out loud)
• cur | prev 1934 an editor (talk | contribs) . . (1,970 bytes) (+70) m . . (→ Jung has died. the corrections are in the surveying tables under no name at all, which is what happens to an explanation that works)
• cur | prev 1888 A. T. Jung (talk | contribs) . . (1,900 bytes) (+380) . . (→ all of it comes off one curve of temperature against height. looming, sinking, towering, stooping, the doubled ships, the Fata Morgana, the sun that rises early in the ice. one curve. there is nothing here that needs a temperament)
• cur | prev 1866 the Mud Geometer (talk | contribs) . . (1,520 bytes) (+50) . . (I HAVE SEEN THE WATER. IT WERE THERE. YOU WAS NOT THERE AND YOU SAY IT WERE THE SKY. HOW WOULD THE SKY GET UNDER MY FEET)
• cur | prev 1860 an editor (talk | contribs) . . (1,470 bytes) (+150) . . (→ a Leipzig weekly prints a desert plate and captions it a Fata Morgana. nothing in it is stacked or upside down, so whatever the artist saw it was not that. keeping the plate; the caption is the exhibit)
• cur | prev 1847 an editor (talk | contribs) . . (1,320 bytes) (+90) m . . (→ Unlonn has drowned measuring a fjord wall he put four metres to the left. refraction does not go sideways. it is the one direction it cannot go and it is the direction he stepped)
• cur | prev 1842 H. Unlonn (talk | contribs) . . (1,230 bytes) (+210) . . (→ entered the lake-mirage on the index at 4.0. it insists upon a position while occupying none, so the divisor is guilt, which is always available)
• cur | prev 1837 H. Unlonn (talk | contribs) . . (1,020 bytes) (+340) . . (→ measured a mirage at Reuelsee for eleven hours. the figures are correct and I will stand on them. the lake withdrew as I approached, and I record that it was aware of doing so)
• cur | prev 1799 S. Vince (talk | contribs) . . (680 bytes) (+260) . . (→ laid the other case before the Royal Society. over cold water the bending goes the other way and the ship is lifted, doubled and set on its head. plate engraved, ten figures, and the tenth is the only one that explains anything)
• cur | prev 1799 an editor (talk | contribs) . . (420 bytes) (+120) m . . (→ note that the reflecting layer M. Monge describes has been proposed before and set aside twice, there being no surface in open air for anything to reflect from)
• cur | prev 1798 G. Monge (talk | contribs) . . (300 bytes) (+300) . . (created page; the officers report lakes across the desert and reach none of them. there is no water. what they see is the sky, returned to them from below by the hot layer at the ground, which reflects it entire as the underside of a pond does)

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