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.