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#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is It Possible to Get Just as Good as Hook Havalius?
Hook Havalius claimed to have found the number for what we now call 2020 vision. Dunsig calculated his numbers using modern tables from NASA and so on. They are even more accurate than Havalius had claimed, says Dunsig. But he was observing the wrong thing: a bright dot moving past a pointer. Our eyes are rather similar to frog's eyes; they respond to motion.
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