The Lines of Demarcation of Pope Alexander VI and the Treaty of Tordesillas A.D. 1493 and 1494 - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...as follows:--1 Olympic stade = 606 75 English feet. 10 " "= 6067-5 "" and 1 nautical mile = 6075-5 "" 1 admiralty knot = 6086-5 "" or by Clarke's measurement = 6087'11"" Therefore 10 Olympic stades = 1 minute of the equator, and 600" "= 1 degree The Greek and modern standards then, though not absolutely equivalent, are sufficiently so for all practical purposes. The difference between ten Greek stadia and our accepted nautical mile is not greater than that between the nautical mile of customary computation and the admiralty knot; and, as before stated, the precise circumference of the earth has. not even yet been ascertained with absolute accuracy. Although the Greek itinerary standard was the stadium, or footrace course at Olympia, it was repeated in the stadia of all other Greek cities in Europe or Asia Minor, erected for the athletic games, of which the Greeks were so fond; and, in fact, wherever Greek influence extended the stade continued to be the established standard. The Eoman standard itinerary measure was characteristic of the world-conquerors. The mile is the mille passuum--the thousand paces--of the legionary soldiers, and, as they subdued Western Europe, the Eoman power was consolidated by a perfect system of roads, and their milestones recorded the distances and familiarized the people for many centuries with a general standard of length which overrode the local measures of the shifting and semi-barbarous tribes of the-West. The integer of this standard is the passus--the pace; not the gradus, or step--a distinction sometimes overlooked; because, as the word passed through the French into the English language it became synonymous with step; whereas the Eoman passus was a double step e...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1154997278
- ISBN 13 9781154997279
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages36
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