Looming: The optical phenomenon behind the edge of the world

In 1798, Dr Nathaniel Vince and a small group of friends gathered on the shores of the English Channel and witnessed a strange thing. They were watching the barque Holstead, which had recently departed Ramsgate. The Holstead hovered above the horizon when, slowly, her masts inverted before disappearing in an
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