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What appears at first to be a
telling objection to this
explanation may have occurred
to the reader: How can it be
maintained that the moon at
the horizon looks largerΓÇöΓÇô
because it appears to be farther
away than it does in elevation
ΓÇöΓÇôwhen the fact is that it
appears to be nearer at the
horizon? The late Edwin
Boring, the first psychologist to
do formal experiments on the
moon illusion, and many
others have made the same
objection. Boring supported this
objection by asking a sample of
observers whether the horizon
moon or the elevated moon
appeared to be closer to them.
All of the observers said that
the horizon moon appeared
closer. This led Boring to reject
the apparent-distance
explanation and to conduct
experiments that seemed to
show that differences in the
perceived size of the moon
could be attributed to
differences in the degree of
elevation of the observerΓÇÖs eyes
in the head. BoringΓÇÖs own
theory can be dismissed
because the apparent size of the
elevated moon remains the
same even when it is viewed
lying down, staring straight
ahead, and the horizon moon
the same even when viewed
with head tilted forward and
eyes elevated. But what about
his objection and his findings
about distance?