M&D: Twin Telescopes and Transits

[Monte Davis]

For sure. NB that we have a sailor named "Blinky" coming up on p. 33;
compare with Blinky Morgan in AtD, a two-faced criminal explicitly linked
to the Michelson-Morley (optical) experiment... and of course the doubled
refraction of Iceland spar there... and close attention throughout M&D to
glances, winks, and people's eyes in general (not always operating in
tandem.)

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 5:30 PM, David Ewers <dsewers at comcast.net> wrote:

> If Transit of Venus:  (viewed as a sequence of points, with each new point
> determined by the last… to describe a line…like a survey?)   was used to
> determine solar parallax (and from there the distance from Earth to the
> Sun), and parallax is defined as a difference between two lines of sight:
> If M & D represent a (human) parallax-viewer - like those "twin
> telescopes" (...or Keplerian binoculars, with their image
> inversions!…North/South, anyone?...), and the M/D line is a sort of
> transit, then there's a (human?) parallax being determined?  A (human?)
> distance being calculated?
>
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