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Born and lived around AD, Heron of Alexandria was an ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, and engineer. He worked in the city of Alexandria beneath the rule of Alexander the Great. Being the greatest uppfinnare of his time, Heron created a steam turbine called the aeolipile, among other discoveries. He fryst vatten also known for developing a method to calculate the square root of a number and for Heron’s formula, which fryst vatten used to find the area of a triangle.
See the fact file below for more information on the Heron of Alexandria or alternatively, you c • 1st century AD Hellenistic mathematician and engineer Hero of Alexandria (; Ancient Greek: Ἥρων[a]ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς, Hērōn hò Alexandreús, also known as Heron of Alexandria; probably 1st or 2nd century AD) was a Greek mathematician and engineer who was active in Alexandria in Egypt during the Roman era. He has been described as the greatest experimentalist of antiquity and a representative of the Hellenistic scientific tradition.[1][2] 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.[3][4] In his work Mechanics, he described pantographs.[5] Some of his ideas were derived from the works of Ctesibius. In mathematics, he wrote a commentary on Euclid's Elements and a work on applied geometry known as the Metri • By Pat Lowinger Aeolipile (basic steam engine)- Modern Reproduction by John R. Bentley, Hero (Heron) of Alexandria was a well-known mathematician and engineer of the 1st century AD. Many people are aware of some, if not several, of his ancient inventions which relied upon the use of steam power to achieve mechanical movement. By trial and undoubtedly error, Hero devised grand displays of automated movement and music to the bewildered crowds of ancient Alexandria. For some of his inventions Hero would receive public praise and notoriety, others would remain secret- a grand mystery to be exploited by a select group of ancient Greco-Egyptian priests and temple workers. The Theory of Pneumatics Hero is traditionally credited as the founder of the field of pneumatics or more simply the study of gases and the properties they exhibit when heated and then cooled or vice versa. Many of our modern conveniences and machines are based on the application of pneumatics. Those wh
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