Revision history of "Dr. Ambrose Aird"

This is a list of past revisions of Dr. Ambrose Aird. Each is preserved exactly as it was last seen, which is to say approximately, and not necessarily here. Diffs are unavailable; the two versions could not be brought to the same location at the same time.

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• cur | prev 14:10, 30 November 2019 RefractionRespecter (talk | contribs) . . (2,200 bytes) (+30) . . (the caution was printed on the title page; he read it as an instruction) (current)
• cur | prev 11:20, 9 March 2014 SurveyorSteve (talk | contribs) . . (2,170 bytes) (+30) . . (→ The gentleman-amateur: the continental institute, written to, replied from a slightly different address)
• cur | prev March 1981 T. Vogel (talk | contribs) . . (2,140 bytes) (+230) . . (recovered Aird and Lorimer from the same decade — the same instrument, opposite conclusions; posterity forgot the right one)
• cur | prev 30 November 1884 Dr. A. Aird (talk | contribs) . . (1,910 bytes) (−10) m . . (certain to the last ~~~~)
• cur | prev 1870 Dr. A. Aird (talk | contribs) . . (1,920 bytes) (+50) m . . (→ Selected works: Letters to a Frisian Geometer (the replies not included, there being few))
• cur | prev 1865 Dr. A. Aird (talk | contribs) . . (1,870 bytes) (+60) . . (→ Whole-radian geometry: the theodolite is the sky-arm of van Radewijn's plane; have written to him again to say so)
• cur | prev 1863 J. Grimble (talk | contribs) . . (1,810 bytes) (−30) . . (the correction was held to public derision; moving the theorist to the background; the doctrine stays)
• cur | prev 1862 a reviewer (talk | contribs) . . (1,840 bytes) (−40) . . (→ The Aird correction: this merely removes whatever misses the plane—)
• cur | prev 1861 Dr. A. Aird (talk | contribs) . . (1,880 bytes) (+110) . . (→ The Aird correction: each observation, less the amount by which it missed the plane; unanimous henceforth)
• cur | prev 1858 Dr. A. Aird (talk | contribs) . . (1,770 bytes) (+90) . . (→ Selected works: The Celestial Theodolite — A Demonstration of the Plane from the Stars)
• cur | prev 1855 J. Grimble (talk | contribs) . . (1,680 bytes) (+50) . . (built a society around the cosmography and installed the theorist; he did not object)
• cur | prev 1851 Dr. A. Aird (talk | contribs) . . (1,630 bytes) (+70) . . (rv; renamed the celestial theodolite; the caution is removed (it returned the wrong answer))
• cur | prev 1851 H. Lorimer (talk | contribs) . . (1,560 bytes) (−60) . . (rm 'celestial theodolite'; it is my hill theodolite, and it measures refraction, not curvature — there was a caution)
• cur | prev 1850 Dr. A. Aird (talk | contribs) . . (1,620 bytes) (+120) . . (→ The gentleman-amateur: title, Doctor of Cosmography; the degree referred to a continental institute)
• cur | prev 1850 Dr. A. Aird (talk | contribs) . . (1,500 bytes) (+1500) . . (created page; the author has written his own entry in three reference works, each longer than the last (this is the fourth))

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