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A diver viewed from below who appears inside of Snell's window. Snell's window (also called Snell's circle [1] or optical man-hole [2]) is a phenomenon by which an underwater viewer sees everything above the surface through a cone of light of width of about 96 degrees. [3] This phenomenon is caused by refraction of light entering water, and is ...
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English: Snell's window as seen through an underwater tunnel at the St. Louis Zoo. Caustics in the water are visible near the sun. The black line through the frame is a gasket between segments of the tunnel.
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Snell was born in Laddonia, Missouri on November 12, 1878 to James and Sarah Knight-Snell. [1] Snell wrote several juvenile fiction books. While he mostly concentrated on stories for boys there was at least one series of mysteries for girls. He also wrote under the pen names of David O'Hara, James Craig and Joseph Marino. [2]
Henry Bayley Snell (September 29, 1858 – January 17, 1943) was an American Impressionist painter and educator. Snell's paintings are in museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, [ 1 ] and the Pennsylvania Academy in Philadelphia.
His poem "The Walloping Window Blind" can be sung to the same tune as Ten Thousand Miles Away, using the same refrain (or with minor changes). [4] It has been variously named "Capital Ship", "Blow, Ye Winds, Heigh-Ho", and "The Walloping Window-Blind". [5] It was called "Capital Ship" by Bounding Main on their 2005 album Lost at Sea. [6]
Martin Edge (op cit, p223) observes "I was once under the impression that the deeper you went the more [of snell's window] could be included [in the photograph]. This is incorrect! To photograph the full circle you need a fisheye lens equivalent to a 12mm lens on a 35mm format."