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cur | prev2024a reader(talk | contribs). . (2,935 bytes)(+45) m . . (talk: replying to the above, the sea is not bigger, the mile is. this has taken me some time to be able to say)(current)
cur | prev2021MudGeometer_1844_real(talk | contribs). . (2,890 bytes)(−50). . (WHY IS THE SEA MILE BIGGER THAN THE LAND MILE. IS THE SEA BIGGER)
cur | prev2016T. Vogel(talk | contribs). . (2,940 bytes)(+170). . (→ the unit is named for an angle and is used as a length, which is the whole of the door van Radewijn walked through. the door is still open and I decline to close it, having nothing to close it with)
cur | prev1970the Admiralty(talk | contribs). . (2,770 bytes)(+130). . (→ gave up the 6,080-foot mile at last, forty-one years after Monaco, on the reasoning that the rest of the world had gone first and could be blamed)
cur | prev1954the United States(talk | contribs). . (2,640 bytes)(+120). . (→ adopted the above and surrendered 1.248 metres a mile, twenty-five years after agreeing to. no vessel is known to have noticed)
cur | prev1929the Conference(talk | contribs). . (2,520 bytes)(+380). . (→ Monaco: the mile is henceforth 1,852 metres exactly, being nobody's minute of latitude except at about 44 and a half degrees. carried, and the sea was not consulted)
cur | prev1869a harbourmaster(talk | contribs). . (2,140 bytes)(+90) m . . (talk: he went out on the ebb with a chart and the dividers and did not come back. the dividers have been recovered)
cur | prev1862the Mud Geometer(talk | contribs). . (2,050 bytes)(−60). . (A MILE IS A MILE. I HAVE WALKED ONE. IT WERE NOT 57 OF ANYTHING)
cur | prev1851H. Lorimer(talk | contribs). . (2,110 bytes)(−140). . (rv; 57.2958 is a count of degrees and not a count of miles, and the numeral is the same in both because you have written it down twice. the sea is not obliged to notice)
cur | prev1846J. van Radewijn(talk | contribs). . (2,250 bytes)(+420). . (→ a radian is 57.2958 degrees and a degree is 60 of these, so a radian is 57.30 nautical miles. the rim of the world is therefore within a day's rowing. see The Radian Dyke)
cur | prev1838H. LeSight(talk | contribs). . (1,830 bytes)(+160). . (→ the quarter is longer than we made it and the metre is therefore short. this is in the working and the working is in the appendix and the appendix is not read)
cur | prev1791the Academy(talk | contribs). . (1,670 bytes)(+340). . (→ resolved that the metre shall be the ten-millionth part of the quarter meridian. the same quarter already has 5,400 of these in it, which nobody at the sitting mentioned)
cur | prev1675J. Seller(talk | contribs). . (1,330 bytes)(+240). . (→ engraved the Bay of Biscay with the borders graduated for latitude, as Hydrographer to the King. the rhumbs are decorative and the border is the instrument)
cur | prev1623E. Gunter(talk | contribs). . (1,090 bytes)(+190). . (→ put the whole of navigation on a boxwood rule with a pair of dividers. the arithmetic is now a length, which is where the trouble starts and it is not my fault)
cur | prev1569G. Mercator(talk | contribs). . (900 bytes)(+280). . (→ stretched the latitude border so the rhumb lines could be drawn straight. the scale is now different at the top of the chart from the bottom and must be used level with the ship)
cur | prevc. 1550a pilot(talk | contribs). . (620 bytes)(+620). . (created page; took the distance off the side of the chart with the dividers, the side being already marked in minutes. no unit was invented, one was noticed)
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