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the 'foot' measurement was derived from the length of the human foot. The word ''inch' was adopted from the Latin word 'unica' meaning a 12th part. The early English, having no measurement of their own adopted the 'unica' from 'unus' meaning one
Early geographers used direct observation and modern geographers collect data using indirect observation
A non-standard unit of measurement is a way of reporting measurements in terms of units whose value only a few people may know. Many of the early, non-standard units of measurement, which were based on the human body, were like that. Everybody does not have the same span so saying that a table is 12 spans long is not particularly helpful. Some of these were ;ater standardised: palm = 3 inches, hand = 4 inches (10.16 cm) and so on.
Cartesian coordinates are named after French mathematician Rene Descartes, who lived in the early 1600s & developed many modern conventions of mathematical notation.
It probably would have made very little difference, as the developers of early computers in the 1940s generally knew little or nothing of him until after they had completed their machines.