M&D: Twin Telescopes and Transits

[David Ewers]

Yes, I see!  Thanks!

So, should we be figuring the distance between Mason and Dixon into the equation?  
Is that kind of what M & D are doing at this point, each through their respective 'lenses'?  Calibrating?

On Jan 15, 2015, at 3:34 PM, Monte Davis wrote:

> 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."
> 

This is great!


> 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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