Introduction
The Circumnavigator’s Paradox
The Discovery of the Calendrical Date Line
17th-Century Proposals for a Calendrical Date Line
The Asian and American Day Count in the Pacific Ocean
The Calendrical Date Line in 19th-Century Popular Fiction
The International Meridian Conference of 1884
The Alaska/Samoa Adjustments of 1867 and 1892
The Kiribati Adjustment of 1994/95
Bibliography
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Institute for History and Foundations of Mathematics and the Physical Sciences
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