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  2. Camera obscura - Wikipedia

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    A camera obscura (pl. camerae obscurae or camera obscuras; from Latin camera obscūra 'dark chamber') [1] is the natural phenomenon in which the rays of light passing through a small hole into a dark space form an image where they strike a surface, resulting in an inverted (upside down) and reversed (left to right) projection of the view outside.

  3. The Real Reason Designers Style Books Backwards on Shelves - AOL

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    For titles you rarely read but can’t dream of parting with, the style can work. However, if you tend to use your bookshelves all the time but still crave a more neutral, uniform look, there’s ...

  4. The Armour of Light - Wikipedia

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    The Armour of Light is a historical fiction novel by Welsh author Ken Follett. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is the fifth book in the Kingsbridge Series , and is the sequel to A Column of Fire . The Armour of Light takes place in the years 1792–1824 in Kingsbridge, the same fictional English town in The Pillars of the Earth .

  5. Entoptic phenomenon - Wikipedia

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    Tscherning referred to this as the sixth image (the fifth image is formed by reflections from the anterior surfaces of the lens and cornea to form an image too far in front of the retina to be visible) and noted it was much fainter and best seen with a relaxed emmetropic eye. To see it, one must be in a dark room, with one eye closed; one must ...

  6. The Book of Lights - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Lights is a 1981 novel by Chaim Potok about a young rabbi and student of Kabbalah whose service as a United States military chaplain in Korea and Japan after the Korean War challenges his thinking about the meaning of faith in a world of "light" from many sources.

  7. Northern lights to ring in 2025? Look to the skies in these ...

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    CMEs travel several million miles per hour, so the NOAA predicts that the best time to see the lights would be between 10 p.m. ET on Dec. 30 and 10 a.m. ET on Dec. 31, according to Space.com ...

  8. Gegenschein - Wikipedia

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    Gegenschein is distinguished from zodiacal light by its high angle of reflection of the incident sunlight on the dust particles. It forms a slightly brighter elliptical spot of 8–10° across directly opposite the Sun within the dimmer band of zodiacal light and zodiac constellation. [ 2 ]

  9. Chromostereopsis - Wikipedia

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    Blue–red contrast demonstrating depth perception effects 3 Layers of depths "Rivers, Valleys & Mountains". Chromostereopsis is a visual illusion whereby the impression of depth is conveyed in two-dimensional color images, usually of red–blue or red–green colors, but can also be perceived with red–grey or blue–grey images.