Optics Is a Rudimentary Concept, Right?

Aristotle thought that there's no one way a particular sensible object will appear sensitive to light. How it appears can vary with the perspective or the circumstances, like lighting conditions. He gives this famous example of the sun looking like it's very small,. But you're not making a mistake when you see it looking that size. That is the size that it looks from where we're standing, namely, very far away.