APPARENT PLACE of any Object, in Optics, is that wherein it appears, when seen through one or more Glasses.
See PLACE, OPTIC GLASS, etc.
The Apparent Place is different from the real one; for when, by Refraction through Glasses, that parcel of Rays which falls on the Pupil of the Eye, from each Point of any near Object, is made to flow as close together as that which comes from a distant one; or when, by the same means, the Rays coming from distant Objects are made to diverge as much as if they flowed from near ones; then the Eye must necessarily see the Place of the Objects changed.
This change is its Apparent Place. See VISION.
See PLACE, OPTIC GLASS, etc.
The Apparent Place is different from the real one; for when, by Refraction through Glasses, that parcel of Rays which falls on the Pupil of the Eye, from each Point of any near Object, is made to flow as close together as that which comes from a distant one; or when, by the same means, the Rays coming from distant Objects are made to diverge as much as if they flowed from near ones; then the Eye must necessarily see the Place of the Objects changed.
This change is its Apparent Place. See VISION.