Beatrice's demonstration that increased distance changes apparent size but not brightness, used to refute the dimness-by-depth theory of the moon.
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three-mirror experiment
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Taking three mirrors, place a pair of them at equal distance from you, set the third midway point. The middle starts straight between those..."
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"Taking three mirrors, place a pair of them at equal distance from you, set the third midway point. The middle starts straight between those..."
"Okay, so here's an experiment, okay? What I'm doing is I am putting mirrors in front of me, okay, maybe 10 feet away from..."
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Jiang opens the Dante series by doing something deliberately strange: he starts with Paradise, rejects the clever but dead answer, and says imagination is the road to truth.
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