M&D: Twin Telescopes and Transits

[Monte Davis]

Right at hand on p. 19: "Dixon ingenuously waving his Joint [cough], eyes
round as Pistoles. 'No Offense, Sir.' Rolling his Eyes the Moment Mason
switches his Stare away, then back a bit late to catch them so much as
off-Center."

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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