parallax

• As for parallax, the scope was an American model Zeiss 4. 5X-14X with dial-a-dog parallax on the turret, so that was not the problem. —  Field & Stream -
• They were as much puzzled about the meaning of the word parallax as I had been with regard to the word algebra, and only learnt what it meant when Brewster went to study for the kirk in Edinburgh. —  Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville
• This, then, is parallax, and, compounded with invisibility at Paris, is great parallax--or that, in the course of a month, in the summer of 1762, a large, opaque, spindle-shaped body traversed the disk of the sun, but at a great distance from the sun. —  The Book of the Damned
• But the parallax was considerable. —  The Book of the Damned
• To this I may safely say, that hee may justly be accounted a weake Mathematician who mistrusts the strength of this argument, nor can hee know much in Astronomy, who understands not the parallax, which is the foundation of that Science, and I am sure that hee is a timorous man, who dares not believe the frequent experience of his senses, or trust to a demonstration Sidenote 1*: Epist. —  The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet

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