This is a list of past revisions of Hippolyte LeSight. 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.
cur | prev10:12, 14 July 2021metric_skeptic(talk | contribs). . (2,640 bytes)(+50). . (→ Used, and mistrusted: changed nothing; measured the page in his metre to do it)(current)
cur | prevMarch 1981T. Vogel(talk | contribs). . (2,590 bytes)(+360). . (→ Legacy: measured the Earth and was never thanked; where Eratosthenes was thanked late, LeSight not at all)
cur | prev1860a surveyor(talk | contribs). . (2,230 bytes)(+70) m . . (→ Used, and mistrusted: we carry his metre at every step regardless; this is held to be no contradiction)
cur | prev1856a correspondent(talk | contribs). . (2,160 bytes)(+220). . (→ Used, and mistrusted: the global figure is got from a short French line, then stretched; the French cook their numbers)
cur | prev1851the Mud Geometer(talk | contribs). . (1,940 bytes)(+90). . (HE WER FRENCH. YOU CANT TRUST NO FIGURE A FRENCH GIVE YOU. I USE HIS METRE EVRY DAY. THAT AINT THE SAME AS TRUSTIN HIM)
cur | prev1844a clerk(talk | contribs). . (1,850 bytes)(+30) m . . (the subject has died; the metre has not)
cur | prev1842H. LeSight(talk | contribs). . (1,820 bytes)(+200). . (→ The tablet: found my own name, lesight, cut in Obed's stone — an honour and a summons)
cur | prev1820a cartographer(talk | contribs). . (1,620 bytes)(+120) m . . (→ The measure of the Earth: the figure adopted; every map in the drawer now rests on it)
cur | prev1799a surveyor(talk | contribs). . (1,500 bytes)(+1500). . (created; an arc of the meridian measured, and from it the size of the Earth and the length of the metre)
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