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Beginning the End: In the zero thickness of the International Date Line (2009)
- SamBam 2y ago> Ismail Abu al-Fida’s 1323 hypothesis regarding a “circumnavigator’s paradox,” which held that exactly one day would be inevitably lost by long-distance travelers “bearing the Sun company.” I had never quite thought about it like this, but of course it makes sense. It seems like it's the same as, but kind of the opposite of, the coin rotation paradox, or the fact that there are 366.25 sidereal days in a year.
- layer8 2y agoI think you need to read Around the World in Eighty Days.
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- fmajid 2y agoIt's a plot device in Jules Verne's 1872 novel Around the World in 80 Days, thus before the date line was established in 1885.