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- Bematist (Ancient Gr****: βηματιστής), plural bematists or bematistae (Ancient Gr****: βηματισταί), meaning 'step measurer' (from βῆμα (bema), meaning 'pace')...
- the 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...
- Alexandria was 5,000 stadia (a figure that was checked yearly by professional bematists, mensores regii). He ****umes the simplified (but inaccurate) hypothesis...
- Aswan), and the distance between the cities was measured by professional bematists. A geometric calculation reveals that the cir****ference of the Earth is...
- believed it to be the Deli Çay, but the distances measured by Alexander's bematists and observations of the local topography, as compared to ancient descriptions...
- 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...
- the First Battle of Issus. But the distances measured by Alexander's bematists and observations of the local topography indicate that the Pinarus is...
- Alexander's Journey/Stations of the march of Alexander), a work of Baeton (the Bematist of Alexander the Great). Work of Chares of Mytilene. Ten books about the...
- an Alexandria in Arachosia—while Pliny additionally cites Alexander's bematists (distance-measurers) Diognetos and Baiton, who refer to an "Arachosiorum...
- Alexandria was 5,000 stadia (a figure that was checked yearly by professional bematists, mensores regii); he ****umes the simplified hypothesis that Syene was...