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Subject: Re: Does millaria germanica equal US mile?
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 20:30:20 +0200
From: "Baarnhielm, Goran" <[log in to unmask]>
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There is at least one website with
"Mathematical data for bibliographic descriptions of cartographic
materials and spatial data"
http://www.kb.nl/kb/resources/frameset_kb.html?/kb/skd/skd/mathemat.html
and there you will find that the German geographic mile is 7.42
kilometers. This would be 4.6 statute miles which I suppose is the same
as the American.
Best regards
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Kungl. biblioteket - The Royal Library - National Library of Sweden
P.O. Box 5039, SE-102 41 Stockholm, Sweden
Tel.: +46-8-463 4180. Fax: +46-8-463 4328.
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From: Johnnie Sutherland <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2003 7:12 pm
Subject: Does millaria germanica equal US mile?
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> Subject: Does millaria germanica equal US mile?
> Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 12:14:56 -0400
> From: "Falato, Brian" <[log in to unmask]>
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> I'm just starting on a project cataloging rare maps. One of the
> titlesI have is "Florida et regiones vicinae." The cartographer is
> Joannes de
> Laet and map was made in 1630, according to "The Southeast in early
> maps" by William P. Cumming (the info is not on the map itself). The
> only scale on the map uses millaria germanica. Is this the same
> as US
> miles? A record in OCLC put in by the State Library of Florida gives
> the scale as ca. 1:1,457,280. This represents 1 inch = 23 miles, which
> would be the correct scale if millaria Germanica equals US miles. But
> Cumming says the scale is 1 inch = 106 miles, which would make it
> 1:6,716,160. The size of the map given by Cumming matches up with the
> copy I have, as well as the dimensions given in the OCLC record
> done by
> State Library of Florida (27 cm. height x 35 cm width). I thought
> if I
> could find out what millaria germanica equals in US miles, then at
> leastI could determine the scale for the copy I have.
>
> Brian Falato
> Serials/Maps Cataloger
> University of South Florida
> Tampa Campus Library
> Tampa, FL 33620
> (813)974-1772
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