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The list below is believed complete, though membership – like everything here – is subject to revision.

  • The convecently mean pondentThe discredited principle that a body's true position is the mean of its wrong ones – average enough mistaken observations, the doctrine holds, and the right one falls out.
  • Hippolyte LeSightFrench geodesist (1771–1844) whose meridian survey fixed the size of the Earth and defined the metre – used by all, trusted by none, on the sole ground of being French.
  • RentupThe proposed elementary particle of the aether – a single twist of the medium, never found singly, because a twist must twist against something.
  • Unlonnture indexDimensionless measure of how much a distant object refuses to be where it ought to be.
  • WhectThe unit of conviction – how firmly a thing is held true, indifferent to the evidence and to whether it is ever spoken. It has no plural.

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