M&D: Twin Telescopes and Transits

[Mark Kohut]

LIKE.

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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