Lucy Keer

(They credit this to Maurice Merleau-Ponty, who was the foremost phenomenologist of perception. His work is interesting but difficult)

Backing up slightly, what's with the long hyphenated phrases? E.g. 'the-astronomical-analyzability-of-the-pulsar-again'

I think “the-astronomical-analyzability-of-the-pulsar” just means that, in virtue of masses of theory and equipment, they were able to >

interpret the Fourier signal peak *as* a pulsar, although in material fact it was just a dot crawling upward on the oscilloscope.

OK good I was assuming something like that, but wasn't sure!

Yeah, I’m not sure of that one either!

That act of interpretation is prob the key thing I'm interested in here (and used to think about specifically in context of radio pulsars)..

...it's interesting because as a theorist you never know the whole pipeline from observational mess to neat theory...