Bematist (Ancient Greek: βηματιστής), plural bematists or bematistae (Ancient Greek: βηματισταί), meaning 'step measurer' (from βῆμα (bema), meaning 'pace')...

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...

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...

Ptolemy, and Pliny draw upon the otherwise-lost evidence of Alexander's bematist distance-measurers. When attempting to decipher the above sources, modern...

produces opportunities for pacing to be applied to record accurate data. Bematist Distance measurement Pace (unit) Pace count beads Walking distance measure...

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 assumes the simplified (but inaccurate) hypothesis...

Aswan), and the distance between the cities was measured by professional bematists. A geometric calculation reveals that the circumference of the Earth is...

and 25 BC Amyntas of Heraclea, mathematician; student of Plato Amyntas (bematist), wrote Stathmoi Amyntas the surgeon Amyntas of Aeolia in diaulos Amyntas...

Alexandria was 5,000 stadia (a figure that was checked yearly by professional bematists, mensores regii); he assumes the simplified hypothesis that Syene was...