Heronis mechanici Liber de machinis bellicis, necnon liber de geodaesia / a Francisco Barocio patritio Veneto latinitate donati, multis mendis expurgati, et figuris, ac scholiis illustrati.
- Heron, of Byzantium.
- Date:
- 1572
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
Venetiis : Apud Franciscum Franciscium Senensem, 1572.
Physical description
4 unnumbered pages, 74 leaves : woodcut, illustrations ; (4to)
Notes
Signatures: A-T⁴ V²
Publisher's device on title page
Initials; headpieces; printed marginal notes
Traditionally attributed to Hero of Alexandria; later research identifies author as Hero, of Byzantium, also known as Hero mechanicus and Hero tertius; cf. Dain, A. La tradition du texte d'Heron de Byzance
References note
Adams H373
Riccardi, P. Bib. matematica v. II, p. 83-84
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Location Status Access Closed storesEPB/B/3127