Geographical mile longitude at the equator is thus exactly 60 geographical miles. It was closely related to the nautical mile, which was originally determined as 1 minute of arc along a great circle of the Earth, but is nowadays defined as exactly 1852 metres. The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) notes that: "The international nautical mile of 1 852 meters (6 076.115 49...feet) was adopted effective July 1, 1954, for use in the United States. The value formerly used in the United States was 6 080.20 feet = 1 nautical (geographical or sea) mile." (6080.2 feet is 1853.24496 meters.)
Minuscule 852 (Gregory-Aland) Minuscule 852 (Gregory-Aland) Minuscule 852 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε406 (von Soden), is a 14th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on parchment. The manuscript has not survived in complete condition. The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 165 parchment leaves (size ). The text is written in one column per page, 28 lines per page, with some lacunae in Matthew 28:18-20; Mark 1:1-21; Luke 1:1-22; John 1:1-27. The text is divided according to chapters (), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their titles () at the top of the pages. There is also