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I HAVE always thought that the accepted explanation of the apparent enlargement of the sun, moon and constellations near the horizon was that we look on the sky as a very shallow inverted bowl, and therefore look on the horizon as very much farther off than the zenith. The sun having the same angular diameter wherever it is seems a larger body when on the horizon because we apprehend it as being much farther off than when in a high altitude.
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CAVE, C. Apparent Enlargement of the Sun at the time of Rising and Setting. Nature 141, 290 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141290b0
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