Terrestrial refraction mb-artistname William Watkins Austin Seven Countryman

Austin Seven Countryman

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Terrestrial refraction mb-artistname William Watkins Austin Seven CountrymanPlate illustrating John Ross's report of the curious effects of refraction in Arctic latitudes. The observations were made on 22 September 1832 at North End Cape, Somerset Island, in the Canadian Arctic. Figure 1 shows the land 'as with no refraction, distant fourteen miles'; figure 2 shows 'the same land, with an iceberg four miles distant raised above the land'; figure 3 shows 'the same refracted in a different way on the same day.' Plate facing p.