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RE: My Art of Astronomy: How Do We Know the Earth is Round? (Part 5)
[When a ship goes out to sea...]
Zoom lenses bring the hull back into view after vanishing from the unaided eye. Things vanish from view because of the rules of perspective.
"Perspective is the art of drawing any object on a plane surface." http://bit.do/rules-of-perspective