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"The pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria" by of Alexandria Hero is an ancient engineering treatise written in the Hellenistic period. It surveys the behavior of air and fluids and applies those principles to ingenious devices—siphons, pumps, fountains, automata, sound-making figures, and early steam-driven demonstrations—often designed for temples, spectacle, and practical use.
The opening of the treatise presents an editor’s and a translator’s prefaces explaining why a new translation was made, the uncertainties around the author’s date and originality (versus Ctesibius), the state of manuscripts, and earlier editions. The text then launches into a clear exposition on the nature of air, void, and compression, arguing from everyday experiments (inverted vessels, cupping glasses, and suction) that practical vacuums can be made and that air is elastic. From there it quickly moves into numbered propositions: varieties of siphons (including enclosed and constant-flow versions), tools for pri
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