This instrument was called an equinoctial armil. Observations taken in this manner must necessarily be very inaccurate, owing to the refraction.
I believe that interpretation, particularly consecutive interpretation, is an art. I also believe, however, that the skill of consecutive interpretation can be taught, but only up to a point.
We're each and every one of them when our local cinema, The Hall, disgorges its nightful of cowboys and we go roaring down Shandon Street, belting the hell out of our backsides to get Trigger ahead of the Red Indians.
It might now be thought that the object of this judgment is the validity of value or an axiological validity (as distinct from a theoretical validity).