The 5-feet pace is the ancient Roman one, in fact a *double* pace, so
rather reasonable, and the Roman mile is 1000 (mille) of those, but the
Swedish (ancient) mile was 36,000 feet.
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Francis Herbert skrev:
>
> Presumably that which the average 'land measurer' or 'surveyor of land'
> (i.e. what 'geometer' actually means) paces. How long is a Scottish land
> surveyor's stride compared to an Englishman's? Also: Speed didn't
> personally survey (cf meaning of French 'surveiller') everything he
> draughted and/or published. And, of course (as another confusing
> contribution), a Swedish mile equals 9 (I think) English ... Enjoy your
> weekends pondering the meaning of life.
>
> Francis Herbert
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jay Heywood [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: 07 December 2001 16:46
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Geometric paces
> >
> > Thanks for the information Richard. It is the 'geometric' bit that's
> > bothering me ...... what IS a 'geometric' pace!
> >
> > Also, these maps were drawn in Scotland, which might confuse the issue
> > even further ......
> >
> > 5 feet is quite a pace!
> >
> > Jay Heywood
> >
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Richard Oliver <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> > To: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 4:17 PM
> > Subject: Re: Geomteric paces
> >
> > If it's of any use, I understand that John Speed's paces on his town
> > maps of the early 17th century were 5 feet to 1 pace. 1 inch to 100
> > of
> > these paces would thus be 1:600 (5 x 12 x 100). But perhaps Mr S's
> > paces weren't geometric!
> >
> > Richard Oliver
> >
> > On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 13:32:45 -0000 Jay Heywood < [log in to unmask]
> > <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
> >
> > > I have a scale on a ms. map, circa 1715/16, which reads "100
> > geometric paces to 1 inch". To work out the scale fraction etc., is this
> > the same as an ordinary 'pace', (insofar as there can be one standard
> > 'pace') or something different?
> > >
> > > Jay Heywood
> > >
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