To: Right Wing Professor
Is it even plausible this was a better lens than, say, the objective in a good 4 inch refractor?~RWP
These lenses—technically termed aspherical, aplanatic lenses—optimize both light collecting and image formation better than any lens ever conceived.
~Niles Eldredge, paleontologist of the American Museum of Natural History
803 posted on
05/26/2005 10:36:31 AM PDT by
Michael_Michaelangelo
(The best theory is not ipso facto a good theory. Lots of links on my homepage...)
To: Michael_Michaelangelo
~Niles Eldredge, paleontologist of the American Museum of Natural History Yeah, if I want the final word on lens technology, I ask a palaeontologist.
Got an actual checkable citation for that quote, BTW?
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