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Definition of Hero of Alexandria
1. Noun. Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hero Of Alexandria
Literary usage of Hero of Alexandria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time by William Whewell (1859)
"Hero of Alexandria. THE other branches of mathematical science which I have spoken
of in the History as cultivated by the Greeks, namely Mechanics and ..."
2. History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time by William Whewell (1857)
"Hero of Alexandria. THE other branches of mathematical science which I have spoken
of in the History as cultivated by the Greeks, namely Mechanics and ..."
3. The Number-system of Algebra: Treated Theoretically and Historically by Henry Burchard Fine (1890)
"But in the writings of Hero of Alexandria (120 BC) the equation first conies
clearly into the light again. Hero was a man of practical genius whose aim was ..."
4. The Steam-engine and Other Heat-engines by James Alfred Ewing (1902)
"Hero of Alexandria. The earliest notices of heat- engines are found in the
Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria, .which dates from the second century before ..."
5. Treatise on the Steam Engine by James Renwick (1839)
"CHAPTER VIL EARLY HISTORY OF THE STEAM ENGINE. Introduction.—Statue of Memnon.—Hero
of Alexandria. ..."
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