The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

Dip of the Horizon

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Owing to the elevation of the eye of the observer above the surface of the earth the visible horizon is depressed below the sensible horizon, and this is known as the dip of the horizon.

Dip of the horizon
Dip of the horizon
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