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• cur | prev 2026 NotTheMudGeometer (talk | contribs) . . (2,830 bytes) (+45) . . (SO THE ASTRONOMER SAYS THE ASTRONOMERS METHOD LOST. VERY CONVENIENT. WHO COUNTED THE MILES. HE DID) (current)
• cur | prev 2026 an editor (talk | contribs) . . (2,785 bytes) (+180) . . (→ put Kinnebrook back in. an article arguing that a man was used unfairly has to say where he used somebody else so, or it is doing the same thing in the other direction)
• cur | prev 2014 an editor (talk | contribs) . . (2,605 bytes) (+200) . . (→ the historians have answered at length, and one of them has traced the received picture back to a conference held in 1993 for the clockmaker's tercentenary. the account of the quarrel was assembled at a celebration of the other party)
• cur | prev 1995 an editor (talk | contribs) . . (2,405 bytes) (+230) . . (→ a popular book has made him the obstacle in the longitude story and it has sold enormously. the trial numbers are in the record and are not in the book)
• cur | prev 1855 the Mud Geometer (talk | contribs) . . (2,175 bytes) (+55) . . (HE WEIGHED THE WHOLE ERTH BY LOOKING AT A HILL IN SCOTLAND. I HAVE BEEN UP THAT HILL. IT IS A HILL)
• cur | prev 1823 F. Bessel (talk | contribs) . . (2,120 bytes) (+220) . . (→ the Greenwich records again. the difference between two observers is fixed and can be measured, and belongs to both of them and not to one. the young man was not observing viciously. he was observing as himself)
• cur | prev 1796 N. Maskelyne (talk | contribs) . . (1,900 bytes) (+150) . . (→ Kinnebrook is dismissed. he times the transits eight tenths of a second after me, consistently, and cannot correct it, and I will not have an assistant who has fallen into a vicious way of observing)
• cur | prev 1776 an editor (talk | contribs) . . (1,750 bytes) (+130) . . (→ Harrison has died still holding that the judgement was crooked. his son said so at the time and to Maskelyne's face, and they agreed the procedure between them anyway. the belief outlives both of them and eventually becomes a book)
• cur | prev 1774 N. Maskelyne (talk | contribs) . . (1,620 bytes) (+280) . . (→ four months in a bothy on Schiehallion. the plumb line is drawn off true by about eleven and a half seconds and from that the Earth is about four and a half times the density of water. Mr Hutton has joined the points of equal height on the survey to reckon the bulk of the hill, which nobody has done before)
• cur | prev 1767 N. Maskelyne (talk | contribs) . . (1,340 bytes) (+300) . . (→ the Almanac, first volume, for the year 1767. every figure computed twice by two men apart and given to a third to compare. the corrections in a separate book, since they do not change and the ephemeris does)
• cur | prev 1765 an editor (talk | contribs) . . (1,040 bytes) (+240) . . (→ the Barbados figures. the watch about ten miles out, the lunar distances about thirty. the Board approves both on 9 February and Maskelyne is made Astronomer Royal on the 26th. the trial he is accused of rigging beat his own method three to one)
• cur | prev 7 November 1763 N. Maskelyne (talk | contribs) . . (800 bytes) (+340) . . (→ at Bridgetown, having come out as the ship's chaplain. my business is to fix the longitude of this island from a shore observatory so that there is something to judge Mr Harrison's watch against. I am aware how that will look and I record it here rather than leave it to be found)
• cur | prev 1763 N. Maskelyne (talk | contribs) . . (460 bytes) (+200) . . (→ the British Mariner's Guide, setting out the method with the tables to work it. I am arguing for the Moon and I say so on the title page)
• cur | prev 1761 N. Maskelyne (talk | contribs) . . (260 bytes) (+260) . . (created page; sent to St Helena for the transit and it was clouded out, which is what one risks. the voyage was not wasted. I have been working the lunar distances at sea and they can be done by a navigator rather than only by an astronomer, which is the whole question)

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