Talk:Day's journey
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keep it Nasz 07:40, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
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The walking merge. Why not a biking for day of fast jorney ?
- to be clear NO. Do not merge. Let it stay. Art has a potential to grow up. Will be useful for wikilinking.
I dont care. You want - you delete. But is always EZ to delete. N
Keep - but obviously needs improvement. It's hard to see why, if this is, Roman mile should not also be merged with walking. I'm sure the potential is there. Needs renaming, as current title is ungrammatical Johnbod 01:56, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Would anyone care to expand on the topic? How far could a person reasonably travel in one day in different eras? How far by horse, car, train, etc. [stageswords@att.net]
That would make a good article since all of that information is known
Keep in category cadence. In antiquity standards of a given distance expected to be covered in a given time were both common and precise being generally related to miles or stadia or subdivisions of a degree (111 km) of the earths surface.
The Roman mille passus, the Greek mia chillioi, were both thousands. Even though the units varied the subdivisions were arranged to come out at the same totals so that whether you counted in units of an hours river journey or a days sail, a days walk or a minute of march people knew what you meant; there would be a corresponding distance in minutes of a degree that could be covered in a day or an hour of timeRktect 13:39, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
The Day's March appears to have long had a precise value. This information was first presented in Elements of the March:
"The march cadence is fairly well established. The Roman militari gradu, regular march cadence, was 100 paces per minute, the quick march cadence was 120 paces per minute. The Roman foot was (0.9708 English foot). The pace was 2.5 Roman feet, (29.124"). According to Upton, this is almost exactly the same as the US Army standard at the turn of the century; its pace was (30"), the regular march cadence was 100 paces / minute and the quick march cadence was 120 paces per minute."
100 paces is 1/10 Roman mile and appears to be the same distance as the Egyptian itrw mentioned in the battle of Kadesh and discussed by Herodotus as the same as the measures used by the Greeks
Sailing Ships: "Lightning" (1854)1854 March 1: On the this day the Lightning sailed 436 miles, which is the longest day's run recorded by a sailing ship. March 1. — Wind S., strong gales; ... Days sail but in antiquity a days sail was taken as about a degree. Over time as ships got faster the reckoning of a days sail increased. Herodotus reckoned for his time 700 stadia as a normal day's sailing Rktect 20:27, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
Good stuff - put it in (rewritten)! Johnbod 20:31, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
