Lune, leagues and miles

Michael Andre-Driussi12 Mar 2002, 00:46original as archived

Jerry Friedman quoted and queried

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--- Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at siriusfiction.com> wrote:

Assuming that Lune Diameter = 2160 miles, and Orbit = 150,000 miles . . .

... Where did you get 150,000 miles?

". . . the Forests of Lune, fifty thousand leagues away" (III, ch. 32, para. 4). "LEAGUE, a unit of distance equal to three miles" (AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY). =mantis= SIRIUS FICTION booklets on Gene Wolfe, John Crowley 43 Lexicons left until OP! http://www.siriusfiction.com/