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Named after Emil Emmert (1844–1911), who first described it in 1881.
Proper noun
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Emmert
's
law
A law stating that
objects
that generate
retinal
images
of the same
size
will look
different
in
physical
size (linear size) if they appear to be located at different
distances
.
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