milliare การใช้

• For this basic length Mouton offered the name milliare.
• Moutons definition of a milliare is a minute of arc, which by modern definition would be a nautical mile, but by the knowledge in 1670 probably was around 2.04 km, which makes a " virgula " 20.4 cm.
• The term is sometimes attributed to French mathematician Jacques Peletier du Mans circa 1550 ( for this reason, the long scale is also known as the " Chuquet-Peletier " system ), but the Oxford English Dictionary states that the term derives from post-Classical Latin term " milliartum ", which became " milliare " and then " milliart " and finally our modern term.