Lenses in M&D--was ToV (spoilers out the b-tt)

[davemarc]

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> From: dennis grace <amazing at mail.utexas.edu>
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I like what Dennis writes about lenses but take issue with the comment
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> So now TRP gives us two scientific denizens of the Enlightenment who
spent
> the majority of their professional lives with one eye fixed to a lens--a
> thingy that gives a distorted (i.e.--false) view of what lies before
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I think "distorted" and (especially) "false" miss the mark.  Words like
"alternate" and "magnified" strike me as more accurate.

davemarc