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Hellenistic Engineers: Hellenistic Military Engineers, Hero of Alexandria, Philo Ofhellenistic Military Engineers, Hero of Alexandria, Philo of Byzantium, Epimachus of Ath

Hellenistic Engineers: Hellenistic Military Engineers, Hero of Alexandria, Philo Ofhellenistic Military Engineers, Hero of Alexandria, Philo of Byzantium, Epimachus of Ath


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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Hellenistic Military Engineers, Hero of Alexandria, Philo of Byzantium, Epimachus of Athens, Ctesibius, Sostratus of Cnidus, Abdaraxus. Excerpt: Hero (or Heron) of Alexandria (Greek: ) (c. 1070 AD) was an ancient Greek mathematician who was a resident of a Roman province (Ptolemaic Egypt); he was also an engineer who was active in his native city of Alexandria. He is considered the greatest experimenter of antiquity and his work is representative of the Hellenistic scientific tradition. Hero published a well recognized description of a steam-powered device called an aeolipile (hence sometimes called a "Hero engine"). Among his most famous inventions was a windwheel, constituting one of the earliest instances of wind harnessing. He is said to have been a follower of the Atomists. Some of his ideas were derived from the works of Ctesibius. Much of Hero's original writings and designs have been lost, having been burned by anti-pagan Christians sometime in the late 4th to 5th centurywhether intentionally or unintentionally, as many of the writings from the Library of Alexandria were housed in pagan temples later burned by Christian leaders such as Pope Theophilus of Alexandria. Fortunately, some of his works were preserved in Arab manuscripts. Due to strong Babylonian influence in Hero's work, it was once speculated by a minority of scholars that Hero may have been a Greek of Egyptian or Phoenician origin, but the modern scholarly consensus is that he was a pure Greek. The historian of mathematics C. B. Boyer explains that Hero's identification as an Egyptian or a Phoenician was largely due to the strong Babylonian influence on his work. However at least from the days of Alexander the Great to the close of the classical world, there undoubtedly w... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=68274


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  • ISBN-13: 9781158144907
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 30
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 59 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1158144903
  • Publisher Date: 14 Jun 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Hellenistic Military Engineers, Hero of Alexandria, Philo Ofhellenistic Military Engineers, Hero of Alexandria, Philo of Byzantium, Epimachus of Ath
  • Width: 229 mm


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