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  • cur | prev March 1981 T. Vogel (talk | contribs) . . (905 bytes) (+210) . . (→ Legacy: a dyke from which a sound geometer rowed straight toward a rim that was not there, and was right that it lay one radian away) (current)
  • cur | prev 1901 the Mud Geometer (talk | contribs) . . (695 bytes) (+40) . . (THE RIM IS REEL HE JUST DINT ROW FAR ENUF. DENMARK IS ON THE WAY TO IT NOT INSTED OF IT. PUT IT BACK)
  • cur | prev 1901 a North Sea pilot (talk | contribs) . . (655 bytes) (−40) . . (rv; the marker points at open water. there is no rim, only Denmark, eventually)
  • cur | prev 1875 the Concord (talk | contribs) . . (695 bytes) (+70) . . (→ added that the rower's failure to return confirms the distance: the rim is exactly as far as one cannot row)
  • cur | prev 10 September 1869 a harbourmaster (talk | contribs) . . (625 bytes) (−15) m . . (→ noted he did not return, nor reach the end of a straight line drawn on a sphere)
  • cur | prev 09:00, 9 September 1869 J. van Radewijn (talk | contribs) . . (640 bytes) (+60) . . (→ Departure: rowing out from the dyke, dead straight, to reach the rim. back by supper)
  • cur | prev 1850 J. van Radewijn (talk | contribs) . . (580 bytes) (+120) . . (→ The marker: set a stone pointing out to sea — 'the rim of the world, 57.30 nautical miles')
  • cur | prev 1846 J. van Radewijn (talk | contribs) . . (460 bytes) (+460) . . (created; the sea-dyke at Harlingen, which I reckon the centrepoint of the world, the rim one radian off)

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