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Bematists or
bematistae (Ancient Gr**** βηματισταί (bēmatistaí, 'step measurer'), from βῆμα (bema, 'pace')), were
specialists in
ancient Greece and ancient...
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produces opportunities for
pacing to be
applied to
record accurate data.
Bematist Distance measurement Pace (unit) Pace
count beads Walking distance measure...
- Ptolemy, and
Pliny draw upon the otherwise-lost
evidence of Alexander's
bematist distance-measurers. When
attempting to
decipher the
above sources, modern...
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English yard: 3 paces made up a leap and 9000 a
Welsh mile.
Anthropic units Bematist Roman &
Byzantine units English &
Welsh units Pacing in
surveying Pace...
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Great (r. 336-323 BC) as by his
bematists Diognetus and Baeton. However, the high
accuracy of the
bematists's measurements rather indicates the use...
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Alexandria was 5,000
stadia (a
figure that was
checked yearly by
professional bematists,
mensores regii). He ****umes the
simplified (but inaccurate) hypothesis...
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which he is
mentioned as King Alexandros'
hemerodromos (cursor) and
bematist of Asia.
Lindos Chronicle. King
Alexandros having defeated Darius in battle...
- Aswan), and the
distance between the
cities was
measured by
professional bematists. A
geometric calculation reveals that the cir****ference of the
Earth is...
- Pliny's Masice, the
point on the
Euphrates in the
measurements of the
Bematists." Herzfeld, The
Persian Empire:
Studies in
Geography and
Ethnography of...
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Alexandria was 5,000
stadia (a
figure that was
checked yearly by
professional bematists,
mensores regii); he ****umes the
simplified (but false)
hypothesis that...
