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Buildings have been propping up around the world since men learned how to build. Soon after, creative designs and different structures we added into the mixture. Mirrored buildings have emerged into the city scene only recently and have already caused problems for civilians.
From ruining cars to starting fires, the 20 Fenchurch Street building has been causing a great controversy in London. Due to the light rays from the sum bouncing off the mirror, heat goes through the cars and other objects and creates holes, and even fires. According to Edwin Meyer, "cold air has a higher index of refraction than warm air does" so, a mirage is the direct effect of light and temperature mixing together. For example, imagine you are driving on a road on a hot, sweltering day when you see heat coming off from the ground. That is one example of a mirage.
According to Aristotle in Meteorologica, with an English translation by H. D. P. Lee "Of course, it all begins with ARISTOTLE, who was quoted by Maltézos (1912). The oldest account of mirages seems to be Aristotle's brief mention in the "Meteorologica" (c. 340 or 350 BC) at 373 b in Book III(p.253 of the Loeb Library edition):"Distant and dense air does of course normally act as a mirror . . . , which is why when there is an east wind promontories on the sea appearto be elevated above it and everything appears abnormally large;. . . " but unfortunately he then drags in the Moon illusion.
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