Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 7, 2011 at 3:28pm.
Define original. My Bowditch (1966) defined the nautical mile as the British "sea mile", or 1852.3m
There were others before that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_mile
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