Anatomy of an illusion: the 'Alhazen' of Johann Hieronymus Schröter

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Jun 2010

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Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol.120, no.3, p.161-168

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Late in the 18th century, German magistrate & astronomer J. H. Schröter charted what he took to be a prominent crater on the eastern 'shoreline' of the Mare Crisium. Subsequent observers experienced some difficulties in recovering the feature, leading to a presumption of change which still hung over the matter at the dawn of the space age. The observational history of this episode and the controversy it engendered is discussed, and comparisons made with the visual appearance of the isolated mountain peak Alhazen Alpha in a small aperture telescope.

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