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  • cur | prev 1998 T. Vogel (talk | contribs) . . (1,135 bytes) (+260) . . (→ Legacy: the most honest dishonest machine of the century — perfected to the point of proving nothing, and mistaken for one that proved them right) (current)
  • cur | prev 1872 W. Cartwright (talk | contribs) . . (875 bytes) (+50) . . (→ Legacy: acquired with the Concord's effects; presumed still here, agreeing silently with everything)
  • cur | prev 1872 an executor (talk | contribs) . . (825 bytes) (−40) . . (→ the method did not arrive; on Grimble's death the work stops, the gap still open)
  • cur | prev 1870 J. Grimble (talk | contribs) . . (865 bytes) (−60) . . (→ The eclipse failure: the part meant to predict an eclipse by flat means, rather than copy one, left a gap awaiting a method)
  • cur | prev 1869 J. Grimble (talk | contribs) . . (925 bytes) (+30) m . . (→ talk: the foregoing objection consigned to the midden)
  • cur | prev 1869 a member (talk | contribs) . . (895 bytes) (−25) m . . (→ talk: the Almanac is computed on the round Earth; we have set our proof from the thing it disproves)
  • cur | prev 1869 the Concord (talk | contribs) . . (920 bytes) (+120) . . (→ Setting the Orrery: the wheels set from the Nautical Almanac, so that it agrees with the sky to the minute)
  • cur | prev 1868 J. Grimble (talk | contribs) . . (800 bytes) (+180) . . (→ Construction: the dome geared to turn the stars over the disc, exactly as observed)
  • cur | prev 1868 J. Grimble (talk | contribs) . . (620 bytes) (+620) . . (created; a brass cosmos for the Concord — a flat disc beneath a starred dome, to show the heavens need no globe)

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