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  <dc:title>Paper, 'An account of a remarkable seeming alteration in the size and shape of objects at a distance, from the exhalations from the Earth' by Peter Collinson</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Collinson writes of the deception of sight from the refraction of air in the appearance of objects on the earth seen from a great distance - witnessed when travelling over Ottmoor [Otmoor] Plain not far from Oxford [England] on 15 June 1731.

Subject: Optics

Read to the Royal Society on 23 March 1731 [1732?].</dc:description>
  <dc:date>[1732]</dc:date>
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