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Right, that's what I'm trying to do, but I don't get their result: x= \gamma((x'+\gamma\beta d)-\beta[(x'+\gamma\beta d)^2+y'^2+(z'-d)^2]^{1/2})

I've been reading the Scott and Viner AJP paper from 1965 "The Geometrical Appearance of Large Objects Moving at Relativistic Speeds" and I am having a little trouble following their derivation of the expression for x in the appendix of the paper. I understand how they get the expression for...