The Purpose of Scientific Instruments

The primary function of telescope's optics is to reduce the illusion that the stars are few, faint, twinkling and moving. The same is true of every feature of the telescope and of all other scientific instruments. Each layer of indirectness, through its associated theory, corrects errors, illusions, misleading perspectives and gaps. And so he says, so i was indeed looking at galaxies, observing a galaxy via specks of silver. It's no different in that regard from observing a garden by via images on the retina. Such instruments fool our senses into seeing what is really thereOur minds conclude that a particular thing is real if and only if it figures in our best explanation of something. We