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• cur | prev 2025 NotTheMudGeometer (talk | contribs) . . (3,794 bytes) (+29) . . (A CLOCK SOLVD IT. A CLOCK. NOT ONE TRIANGEL AMUNG THE LOT OF THEM) (current)
• cur | prev 2024 a reader (talk | contribs) . . (3,765 bytes) (+45) m . . (talk: so who actually solved it. both of them, at the same time, and they were introduced by an Act of Parliament that could not choose either)
• cur | prev 2016 T. Vogel (talk | contribs) . . (3,720 bytes) (+150) . . (→ the popular account has a hero, a villain and a winner. the ships had two instruments and no opinion, and I have restored them both)
• cur | prev 1906 the Almanac (talk | contribs) . . (3,570 bytes) (−80) . . (rm the lunar distance tables, after a hundred and forty years of them. the last fifty were printed for men who were told the question had been settled in 1762)
• cur | prev 1904 a wireless station (talk | contribs) . . (3,650 bytes) (+160) . . (→ began sending the hour out over the air, so that the clock need not be carried at all. the whole difficulty was always somebody else's clock and now it is literally so)
• cur | prev 1869 V. Reeve (talk | contribs) . . (3,490 bytes) (+50) m . . (→ the Athenaeum has considered which of the two methods won and resolved that the question is improper, both having been aboard the same vessels)
• cur | prev 1847 H. Lorimer (talk | contribs) . . (3,440 bytes) (+90) m . . (→ note: every master I have sailed with carries a chronometer and takes lunars anyway, on the reasoning that a clock cannot tell you it has stopped being right)
• cur | prev 1828 the Board (talk | contribs) . . (3,350 bytes) (−60) . . (→ dissolved. the problem is solved twice over and there is nothing left to adjudicate, which is the only tidy end in this article)
• cur | prev 1773 Parliament (talk | contribs) . . (3,410 bytes) (+200) . . (→ paid Harrison the remainder by Act, the King having intervened. twenty-three thousand and sixty-five pounds in all, over forty years, and he is eighty)
• cur | prev 1767 N. Maskelyne (talk | contribs) . . (3,210 bytes) (+380) . . (→ the Nautical Almanac, annually, so that the four hours of arithmetic become one. a sextant and a book, and the book comes out every year)
• cur | prev 1763 the Board (talk | contribs) . . (2,830 bytes) (+90) m . . (→ three thousand pounds to Mayer's widow for the tables. the other method is also the method and this is not widely reported)
• cur | prev 1762 the Board (talk | contribs) . . (2,740 bytes) (+120) m . . (→ the watch was five seconds out after eighty-one days to Jamaica. this may have been luck and we require it done again. it was done again)
• cur | prev 1759 J. Harrison (talk | contribs) . . (2,620 bytes) (+460) . . (→ H4, being a watch and not a clock, after three machines that were neither. it is five inches across and I have spent thirty years on the four of them)
• cur | prev 1755 T. Mayer (talk | contribs) . . (2,160 bytes) (+340) . . (→ lunar tables good enough to work from. the moon's place to a quarter minute, which is the hour at Greenwich if you are willing to spend the evening on it)
• cur | prev 1714 Parliament (talk | contribs) . . (1,820 bytes) (+480) . . (→ twenty thousand pounds for half a degree, being thirty miles after a voyage to the West Indies. a board is appointed to judge and will be judging for a hundred and fourteen years)
• cur | prev 1707 the Scilly Isles (talk | contribs) . . (1,340 bytes) (+180) . . (→ four ships and some two thousand men, on rocks the fleet believed itself well clear of. the reckoning was out and the argument about which half of it was out is still running)
• cur | prev 1675 Charles II (talk | contribs) . . (1,160 bytes) (+260) . . (→ built an observatory at Greenwich and set a man to rectify the tables of the heavens, so as to find the so-much-desired longitude. see John Flamsteed, who is going to take his time)
• cur | prev 1598 Philip III (talk | contribs) . . (900 bytes) (+200) . . (→ offered a pension for a solution. no takers who could keep a clock, which is what it turns out to be about, though nobody has said so yet)
• cur | prev c. 1500 a pilot (talk | contribs) . . (700 bytes) (+700) . . (created page; can find the latitude with a cross-staff before breakfast and have no notion at all of the other one. sailing down the parallel until land, as everyone does)

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