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The Perception of Motion

Relativity of motion furnishes the chief clues to the perception of it, yet we ascribe motion to objects as if they had acquired an absolute quality. This way of perceiving plays strange tricks

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 201 Issue 1This article was originally published with the title “The Perception of Motion” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 201 No. 1 (), p. 56
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0759-56