Gos (unit)

Gos , also Gau , was an East Indian measure of length in Coromandel . It belonged to the mile measure, and the eleven times the mile measure corresponded to 1 degree on the equator.

1 Gos = 1 1/11 miles (geographical) = 10,100 meters = 1 mile (German)

Gos was also measured in steps .

1 Gos = about 4500 to 5000 geometric steps

Individual evidence

^ Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig, 1830, p. 109.
↑ Smaller Brockhaus'sches Konversations-Lexikon for manual use. Volume 2, Brockhaus, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1854, p. 702.
^ Carl Günther Ludovici , Johann Christian Schedel: Newly opened Academy of Merchants, or encyclopaedic merchant lexicon. Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1798, p. 482.

[1] Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig, 1830, p. 109.

[2] Smaller Brockhaus'sches Konversations-Lexikon for manual use. Volume 2, Brockhaus, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1854, p. 702.

[3] Carl Günther Ludovici , Johann Christian Schedel: Newly opened Academy of Merchants, or encyclopaedic merchant lexicon. Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1798, p. 482.