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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...
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    author Heron of Alexandria in his work Belopoeica, which draws on an earlier account of the famous Greek engineer Ctesibius (fl. 285–222 BC). Heron identifies...
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    Aeolipile (redirect from Heron's engine)
    University of Rochester Hero (1899). "Pneumatika, Book II, Chapter XI". Herons von Alexandria Druckwerke und Automatentheater (in Greek and German). Wilhelm Schmidt...
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  • ISBN 978-0-19-922721-1 Hero (1899). "Pneumatika, Book ΙΙ, Chapter XI". Herons von Alexandria Druckwerke und Automatentheater (in Greek and German). Wilhelm Schmidt...
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    S2CID 36841784. Hero (1899). "Pneumatika, Book ΙΙ, Chapter XI". Herons von Alexandria Druckwerke und Automatentheater (in Greek and German). Wilhelm Schmidt...
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    ISBN 978-0-19-922721-1 Hero (1899). "Pneumatika, Book ΙΙ, Chapter XI". Herons von Alexandria Druckwerke und Automatentheater (in Greek and German). Translated...
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    ISBN 978-0-19-922721-1 Hero (1899). "Pneumatika, Book ΙΙ, Chapter XI". Herons von Alexandria Druckwerke und Automatentheater (in Greek and German). Wilhelm Schmidt...
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  • Poor Things (film) (category Films set in Alexandria)
    "Hayao Miyazaki Notches Record $12M+ U.S. Opening With 'The Boy And The Heron'; 'Renaissance' Loses Glam With −77% Drop – Sunday Box Office Update". Deadline...
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  • the complex number. Although the Greek mathematician and engineer Heron of Alexandria is noted as the first to present a calculation involving the square...
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    tradition continued in Alexandria with inventors such as the Greek mathematician Hero of Alexandria (sometimes known as Heron), whose writings on hydraulics...
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    aeolipile mentioned by Vitruvius between 30 and 15 BC and, described by Heron of Alexandria in 1st-century Roman Egypt. Several steam-powered devices were later...
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    ISBN 978-0-520-04499-9. Antoine Héron de Villefosse (2010-09-16). "Diplôme militaire de l'annee 139, découvert en Syrie. Note de M. Héron de Villefosse, membre...
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  • drive axle. Automatic door — In the 1st century AD, mathematician Heron of Alexandria in Roman Egypt invented the first known automatic door. He described...
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    on 9 October 2022. Retrieved 15 July 2020. Svenshon, Helge Olaf: Heron of Alexandria and the Dome of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. In: Proceedings of the...
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    advantage) was attempted by Greek philosophers Heron of Alexandria (c. 10 - 60 CE) and Pappus of Alexandria (c. 290 - 350 CE), but their solutions were incorrect...
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  • shown by Al-Jabr's geometric foundations and by one problem taken from Heron. He makes use of lettered diagrams but all of the coefficients in all of...
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    the systematic use of the 360 degree circle. Heron of Alexandria (c. 10–70 AD) is credited with Heron's formula for finding the area of a scalene triangle...
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    Analog computer invented around the 2nd century BC. In Roman Egypt, Heron of Alexandria (c. 10–70 AD) created the first steam-powered device (Aeolipile)...
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    known as the gastraphetes was described by the Greco-Roman scientist Heron of Alexandria in the 1st century AD. He believed it was the forerunner of the catapult...
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    Neurosciences. 10 (3): 314–319. doi:10.1176/jnp.10.3.314. PMID 9706539. Le Heron C, Apps MA, Husain M (September 2018). "The anatomy of apathy: A neurocognitive...
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    energy than Greek bows. The device was described by the Greek author Heron of Alexandria in his Belopoeica ("On Catapult-making"), which draws on an earlier...
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    Wedding"/"The Wedding Song" and "Miracle Goodnight". They had one daughter, Alexandria "Lexi" Zahra Jones, born on 15 August 2000. The couple resided primarily...
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  • series, F.O.W.L. was founded in the 1960s by Bradford Buzzard and Black Heron after S.H.U.S.H. rejected Bradford's proposal to rein in the world's chaos...
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    expedition sailed in January 1761 via Marseilles and Malta to Istanbul and Alexandria. Then the members of the expedition visited Cairo and Sinai, before traversing...
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    beginning of the 4th century BC, most notably the gastraphetes in Heron of Alexandria's Belopoeica that was probably invented in Syracuse by Dionysius the...
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    that an animal's structure is well matched to function so birds like the heron (which live in marshes with soft mud and live by catching fish) have a long...
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    formula can also be derived from Heron's formula for the area of a triangle from its three sides. However, applying Heron's formula directly can be numerically...
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    emitted from the eye, thus enabling sight. Based on that theory, Heron of Alexandria argued that the speed of light must be infinite because distant objects...
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  • Greece, Geminus 50 BC – 23 AD – China, Liu Xin 1st century – Greece, Heron of Alexandria, Hero, the earliest, fleeting reference to square roots of negative...
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    Joplin's crossover appeal, two October 1968 performances at a roller rink in Alexandria, Virginia, were reviewed by John Segraves of the conservative Washington...
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