| 词条 | Arabic mile |
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The Arab, Arabic, or Arabian mile ({{lang-ar|الميل}}, al-mīl) was a historical Arabic unit of length. Its precise length is disputed, lying between 1.8 and 2.0 km. It was used by medieval Arab geographers and astronomers. The predecessor of the modern nautical mile, it extended the Roman mile to fit an astronomical approximation of 1 minute of an arc of latitude measured along a north-south meridian. The distance between two pillars whose latitudes differed by 1 degree in a north-south direction was measured using sighting pegs along a flat desert plane. There were 4000 cubits in an Arabic mile. If al-Farghani used the legal cubit as his unit of measurement, then an Arabic mile was 1995 meters long. If he used al-Ma'mun's surveying cubit, it was 1925 meters long or 1.04 modern nautical miles.[1] During the Umayyad period (661–750), the "Umayyad mile" was roughly equivalent to {{convert|2285|m|ft|}}, or a little more than two kilometers, or about 2 biblical miles, for every Umayyad mile.[1] Al-Ma'mun's measurementAround 830 AD, Caliph Al-Ma'mun commissioned a group of Muslim astronomers and Muslim geographers to measure the distance from Tadmur (Palmyra) to Raqqa, in modern Syria. They found the cities to be separated by one degree of latitude and the meridian arc distance between them to be 66{{frac|2|3}} miles and thus calculated the Earth's circumference to be 24,000 miles.[2] Another estimate given by his astronomers was 56{{frac|2|3}} Arabic miles (111.8 km per degree), which corresponds to a circumference of 40,248 km, very close to the currently modern values of 111.3 km per degree and 40,068 km circumference, respectively.[3][4] See also
Notes1. ^See: p. 608 (note 11) in: {{cite journal |last=Cytryn-Silverman |first=Katia |title=The Fifth Mīl from Jerusalem: Another Umayyad Milestone from Southern Bilād Al-shām |journal=Cambridge University Press on behalf of School of Oriental and AfricanStudies |volume=70|issue=3 |pages=603–610 |jstor= 40378940|date=2007}} 2. ^Gharā'ib al-funūn wa-mulah al-`uyūn (The Book of Curiosities of the Sciences and Marvels for the Eyes), 2.1 "On the mensuration of the Earth and its division into seven climes, as related by Ptolemy and others," (ff. 22b-23a) 3. ^1 Edward S. Kennedy, Mathematical Geography, pp=187–8, in {{Harv|Rashed|Morelon|1996|pp=185–201}} 4. ^ Gharā'ib al-funūn wa-mulah al-+uyūn , 2.1" On the mensuration of the Earth and its division into seven Climes, es related by Ptolemy and others, "(ff. 22b-23) Bibliography
|last2=Morelon |first2=Régis |last1=Rashed |first1=Roshdi |year=1996 |title=Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dIWtmfwvItkC&printsec=frontcover |volume=1 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=0-415-12410-7 |ref=harv{{DEFAULTSORT:Arab Mile}} 3 : Obsolete units of measurement|Islamic geography|Units of length |
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