Hero of Alexandria
Also known as Hero
ancient Greek mathematician and engineer
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Hero of Alexandria was an ancient Greek mathematician and engineer who lived in Egypt and made important contributions to both fields through his inventions and writings. His work matters because he developed practical mechanical devices and mathematical methods that influenced engineering and science for centuries afterward.
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- Les mécaniques ou L'élévateur de Héron d'Alexandrie
- Evclidis Elementorvm liber primus
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- Di Herone Alessandrino De gli avtomati, ouero machine se moventi
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Hero of Alexandria (/ˈhɪəroʊ/; Ancient Greek: Ἥρων ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς, Hērōn hò Alexandreús, also known as Heron of Alexandria /ˈhɛrən/; probably 1st or 2nd century AD) was a Greek mathematician and engineer who was active in Alexandria during the Roman era. He has been described as the greatest experimentalist of antiquity and a representative of the Hellenistic scientific tradition.
Hero published a well-recognized description of a steam-powered device called an aeolipile, also known as "Hero's engine". Among his most famous inventions was a windwheel, constituting the earliest instance of wind harnessing on land. In his work Mechanics, he described pantographs. Some of his ideas were derived from the works of Ctesibius.