M&D: Twin Telescopes and Transits

[Monte Davis]

Works for me. You mention North/South; despite the title and our natural
interest in US slavery and the foreshadowedf US Civil War, I'd pay at least
as much attention to N/S "parallax"es within Great Britain and globally
(e.g. ships crossing the Equator, Capetown as an "island" braced at the
southern tip of Africa, southern stars not seen from here, etc

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 8:00 PM, David Ewers <dsewers at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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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