Hero of Alexandria (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Hero of Alexandria" in English language version.

refsWebsite

Global rank English rank

5archive.org

6^th place

3web.archive.org

1^st place

2books.google.com

3^rd place

2doi.org

2^nd place

2jstor.org

26^th place

20^th place

2rochester.edu

2,691^st place

1,948^th place

1degruyter.com

1,425^th place

1,138^th place

1worldcat.org

5^th place

1utoronto.ca

1,601^st place

1,117^th place

1st-andrews.ac.uk

1,547^th place

1,410^th place

1harvard.edu

18^th place

17^th place

1newscientist.com

774^th place

716^th place

1youtube.com

9^th place

13^th place

1uh.edu

3,907^th place

2,604^th place

1gla.ac.uk

2,948^th place

1,879^th place

1ruc.dk

low place

archive.org

Abbott, David, ed. (1986) [1985]. "Hero of Alexandria". The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists. New York: Peter Bedrick Books. p. 81. Hero of Alexandria lived c. AD 60, variously described as an Egyptian scientist and a Greek engineer, was the greatest experimentalist of antiquity.
Heath, Thomas (1921). "XVIII: Mensuration: Heron of Alexandria". A History of Greek Mathematics. Vol. 2. Oxford University Press. "Controversies as to Heron's Date", pp. 298–307.
Kelly, Kevin (1994). Out of control: the new biology of machines, social systems and the economic world. Boston: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-48340-8.
Hero (1899). "Pneumatika, Book ΙΙ, Chapter XI". Herons von Alexandria Druckwerke und Automatentheater (in Greek and German). Wilhelm Schmidt (translator). Leipzig: B.G. Teubner. pp. 228–232.
Heath, Thomas (1921). A History of Greek Mathematics. Vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 323–324.

books.google.com

Ceccarelli, Marco (2007). Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science: Their Contributions and Legacies. Springer. p. 230. ISBN 978-1-4020-6366-4.
On the main translations of the treatise, including Bernardino Baldi's 1589 translation into Italian, see now the discussion in Francesco Grillo (2019). Hero of Alexandria's Automata. A Critical Edition and Translation, Including a Commentary on Book One, PhD thesis, Univ. of Glasgow, pp. xxviii–xli.

degruyter.com

Tybjerg, Karin (December 2004). "Hero of Alexandria's Mechanical Geometry". Apeiron. 37 (4): 29–56. doi:10.1515/APEIRON.2004.37.4.29. ISSN 2156-7093.

doi.org

Tybjerg, Karin (December 2004). "Hero of Alexandria's Mechanical Geometry". Apeiron. 37 (4): 29–56. doi:10.1515/APEIRON.2004.37.4.29. ISSN 2156-7093.
Heron's text is (translation by Masià):
"Then, let it be necessary to measure, say, the path between Alexandria and Rome along a line – or rather along a great-circle arc on the earth – if it has been agreed that the circumference of the earth is 252,000 stades – as Eratosthenes, having worked rather more accurately than others, showed in his book entitled On the Measurement of the Earth. Now, let <the> same lunar eclipse have been observed at Alexandria and Rome. If one is found in the records, we will use that, or, if not, it will be possible for us to state our own observations because lunar eclipses occur at 5 and 6 month intervals. Now let an eclipse be found <in the records> – this one, in the stated regions: in Alexandria in the 5th hour of the night, and the same one in the 3rd hour in Rome – obviously the same night. And let the night – that is, the day circle with respect to which the sun moves on the said night – be 9 (or 10) days from the vernal equinox in the direction of the winter solstice."
Sidoli, Nathan (2011). "Heron of Alexandria's Date" (PDF). Centaurus. 53: 55–61. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0498.2010.00203.x.
Masià, Ramon (2015). "On dating Hero of Alexandria". Archive for History of Exact Sciences. 69 (3): 231–255. JSTOR 24569551.

gla.ac.uk

theses.gla.ac.uk

On the main translations of the treatise, including Bernardino Baldi's 1589 translation into Italian, see now the discussion in Francesco Grillo (2019). Hero of Alexandria's Automata. A Critical Edition and Translation, Including a Commentary on Book One, PhD thesis, Univ. of Glasgow, pp. xxviii–xli.

harvard.edu

ui.adsabs.harvard.edu

Woodcroft, Bennet (1851). The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria. London: Taylor Walton and Maberly. Bibcode:1851phal.book.....W. Archived from the original on 1997-06-29. Retrieved January 27, 2010. No. 57. Description of a Syringe

jstor.org

Heron's text is (translation by Masià):
"Then, let it be necessary to measure, say, the path between Alexandria and Rome along a line – or rather along a great-circle arc on the earth – if it has been agreed that the circumference of the earth is 252,000 stades – as Eratosthenes, having worked rather more accurately than others, showed in his book entitled On the Measurement of the Earth. Now, let <the> same lunar eclipse have been observed at Alexandria and Rome. If one is found in the records, we will use that, or, if not, it will be possible for us to state our own observations because lunar eclipses occur at 5 and 6 month intervals. Now let an eclipse be found <in the records> – this one, in the stated regions: in Alexandria in the 5th hour of the night, and the same one in the 3rd hour in Rome – obviously the same night. And let the night – that is, the day circle with respect to which the sun moves on the said night – be 9 (or 10) days from the vernal equinox in the direction of the winter solstice."
Sidoli, Nathan (2011). "Heron of Alexandria's Date" (PDF). Centaurus. 53: 55–61. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0498.2010.00203.x.
Masià, Ramon (2015). "On dating Hero of Alexandria". Archive for History of Exact Sciences. 69 (3): 231–255. JSTOR 24569551.
Smyly, J. Gilbart (1920). "Heron's Formula for Cube Root". Hermathena. 19 (42): 64–67. JSTOR 23037103.

newscientist.com

Sharkey, Noel (7 July 2007). "The programmable robot of ancient Greece". New Scientist. No. 2611.
Crystall, Ben (July 4, 2007). "A programmable robot from AD 60: Noel Sharkey traces the technology way back to ancient Alexandria". New Scientist blog. Archived from the original on September 5, 2017. Retrieved August 29, 2017. (Video also available from YouTube)

rochester.edu

history.rochester.edu

Hero of Alexandria (1851). "Temple Doors opened by Fire on an Altar". Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria. Translated by Bennet Woodcroft (trans.). London: Taylor Walton and Maberly (online edition from University of Rochester, Rochester, NY). Archived from the original on 2008-05-09. Retrieved 2008-04-23.
Woodcroft, Bennet (1851). The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria. London: Taylor Walton and Maberly. Bibcode:1851phal.book.....W. Archived from the original on 1997-06-29. Retrieved January 27, 2010. No. 57. Description of a Syringe

ruc.dk

akira.ruc.dk

Høyrup, Jens (1997). "Hero, Ps-Hero, and Near Eastern practical geometry" (PDF). Antike Naturwissenscha und ihre Rezeption. 7: 67–93.

st-andrews.ac.uk

mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk

O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F. (1999). "Heron of Alexandria". MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive. University of St Andrews.

uh.edu

engines.egr.uh.edu

"Hero of Alexandria | The Engines of Our Ingenuity". engines.egr.uh.edu.

utoronto.ca

individual.utoronto.ca

Heron's text is (translation by Masià):
"Then, let it be necessary to measure, say, the path between Alexandria and Rome along a line – or rather along a great-circle arc on the earth – if it has been agreed that the circumference of the earth is 252,000 stades – as Eratosthenes, having worked rather more accurately than others, showed in his book entitled On the Measurement of the Earth. Now, let <the> same lunar eclipse have been observed at Alexandria and Rome. If one is found in the records, we will use that, or, if not, it will be possible for us to state our own observations because lunar eclipses occur at 5 and 6 month intervals. Now let an eclipse be found <in the records> – this one, in the stated regions: in Alexandria in the 5th hour of the night, and the same one in the 3rd hour in Rome – obviously the same night. And let the night – that is, the day circle with respect to which the sun moves on the said night – be 9 (or 10) days from the vernal equinox in the direction of the winter solstice."
Sidoli, Nathan (2011). "Heron of Alexandria's Date" (PDF). Centaurus. 53: 55–61. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0498.2010.00203.x.
Masià, Ramon (2015). "On dating Hero of Alexandria". Archive for History of Exact Sciences. 69 (3): 231–255. JSTOR 24569551.

web.archive.org

Hero of Alexandria (1851). "Temple Doors opened by Fire on an Altar". Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria. Translated by Bennet Woodcroft (trans.). London: Taylor Walton and Maberly (online edition from University of Rochester, Rochester, NY). Archived from the original on 2008-05-09. Retrieved 2008-04-23.
Woodcroft, Bennet (1851). The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria. London: Taylor Walton and Maberly. Bibcode:1851phal.book.....W. Archived from the original on 1997-06-29. Retrieved January 27, 2010. No. 57. Description of a Syringe
Sharkey, Noel (7 July 2007). "The programmable robot of ancient Greece". New Scientist. No. 2611.
Crystall, Ben (July 4, 2007). "A programmable robot from AD 60: Noel Sharkey traces the technology way back to ancient Alexandria". New Scientist blog. Archived from the original on September 5, 2017. Retrieved August 29, 2017. (Video also available from YouTube)

worldcat.org

search.worldcat.org

Tybjerg, Karin (December 2004). "Hero of Alexandria's Mechanical Geometry". Apeiron. 37 (4): 29–56. doi:10.1515/APEIRON.2004.37.4.29. ISSN 2156-7093.

youtube.com

Sharkey, Noel (7 July 2007). "The programmable robot of ancient Greece". New Scientist. No. 2611.
Crystall, Ben (July 4, 2007). "A programmable robot from AD 60: Noel Sharkey traces the technology way back to ancient Alexandria". New Scientist blog. Archived from the original on September 5, 2017. Retrieved August 29, 2017. (Video also available from YouTube)