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Name Heron, of Alexandria, mathematician and engineer, c 10-c 70 Level [40] File

1. Add MS 23390, ff 3r-50r

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 23390, ff 3r-50r
Title:
Fī raf‘ al-ashyā’ al-thaqīlah في رفع الأشياء الثقيلة Hero of Alexandria إيرن الإسكندراني
Scope & Content:
Arabic version of the Mechanica (Μηχανικά) by the mathematician and engineer Hero of Alexandria (Ἥρων ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς; إيرن; fl. 1st century). Only fragments of the original Greek text survive. The beginnings of Chapters Two and Three (ff. 18r, line 2 and 39v, line 2) give the title of the Arabic ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

ff. 3r-50r

2. Burney MS 81

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 81
Title:
Heron of Alexandria, Pneumatica
Scope & Content:
Heron of Alexandria, Pneumatica (TLG 0559.001), with extensive Latin marginal annotations and many pen diagrams, ff 2r-41v. Preceded on f 1r by an extract from Vitruvius, De architectura 9.9, inc. Item sunt ex aqua, expl. ex aqua comparationes explicuit.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 16th century-3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

41 folios

3. Sloane MS 2437

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2437
Title:
Hero of Alexandria, Definitiones (TLG 0559.008), with figures of geometrical shapes
Scope & Content:
Hero of Alexandria, Definitiones (TLG 0559.008), with figures of geometrical shapes, ff 2r-47v, preceded and followed by two paper leaves from a noted Latin psalter (of 15th-16th century), ff 1r-v and 48r-v.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1650
Extent:
48 folios