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A SLIGHT adaptation of the explanation offered by your correspondent Mr. G. W. Butler (April 10, p. 137) appears to furnish a more natural solution of the problem. When an object at rest is seen against a background which it closely resembles there is nothing to differentiate between the object and the slight irregularities of the background. So soon as the object moves, such a differentiation becomes possible, the moving irregularities being now attributed to their real origin. It seems unnecessary to assume a “cumulative impression of contrast.”
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CAPON, R. Gain of Definition obtained by Moving a Telescope. Nature 91, 189–190 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091189c0
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