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> Smyth's 1867 definition of "Horizon" was even more interesting: "The
> apparent or visible circle which bounds our vision at sea; it is a line
> which is described by the sky and water appearing to meet. This is
> designated as the sensible horizon; the rational or true one being a great
> circle of the heavens, parallel to the sensible horizon,
Darn words! Looking up sensible and sensible horizon on the net a while
back, and sensible is generally what we can see/perceive. Hence my
confusion until I found the "nautical" meaning which you et al cleared up
for me.
