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I REMEMBER when I was a boy, more than eighty years ago, that I used to notice this luminous halo surrounding the shadow of my head on the water when I was fishing from a bridge in the meadows below Salisbury. I think it was in some way connected with the ripple on the water, which was so clear that I could see the fish. I mention this because similar conditions could be easily met with.
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FISHER, O. Luminous Halos surrounding Shadows of Heads. Nature 90, 621 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/090621b0
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