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

  • 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.

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