MDMD: Parallax- another sort of V.

[jporter]

M&D, p.93:

"The further apart the Obs North and South, that is, the better. It is the
Angular Distance between, that we wish to know. One day someone sitting in a
room will succeed in reducing all the Observations, from all 'round the
World, to a simple number of Seconds, and tenths of a Second, of Arc,- and
that will be Parallax."

    " ' Let us hope some of you are awake early enough, to see the Transit.
Remember to keep both eye open, and there will be the three Bodies, lined up
perfectly,- the Heliocentric system in its true Mechanism. His artisanship
how pure.' "

"The Girls keep their Glances each looping 'round the others, like
elaborately curl'd Tresses, trying to see if they should be understanding
this, or,- being cruel young beauties ev' ry one,- even caring."


And let's not Forsake the Art (and the passion!) for the Analysis,

jody


                And though it in the center sit,
                    Yet when the other far doth roam,
                It leans, and hearkens after it,
                    and grows erect, as that comes home.

[A Valediction: forbidding mourning, J. Donne]