The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria - from the Original Greek tr & ed by Bennet Woodcroft (1851).pdf

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PNEUMATICS/
OF
HERO
OF A LE X A N D R IA
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FROM THE ORIGINAL GREEK
TRANSLATED FOR AND EDITED BY
B EN N ET
W O O D C R O FT
PROFESSOR OF MACHINERY IN UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE LONDON
L ON DO N
PRINTED BY CH A R L ES WHITTINGHAM
21 TO O K S
1851
CO U RT
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f : D & A R ES
| 4:34:283
TO
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT
PRESIDENT
of
THE
SOCIETY OF ARTS
QChig (10th
IS BY SPECIAL PERMISSION MOST RESPECTFULLY
DEDICATED
BY HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS'S OBEDIENT AND
VERY HUMBLE SERVANT,
BENNET WOODCROFT.
*>; HILE the Editor of the present work was en
& gaged in writing an Analytical History of the
Steam-Engine, it became necessary to consult
the antient mechanicians to ascertain who were
% the inventors of the several parts composing
that machine: the earliest writer on the subject appeared to
be Hero of Alexandria;
throughout whose work so many of
the elementary parts of all Steam-Engines, and those also of
most other machines are mentioned, that it was thought a
translation of Hero's Pneumatics would be acceptable not only
to the Engineer but to the scientific world generally.
Although at the commencement of his work, Hero states that
he has added his own discoveries to those “handed down by
“former writers,” yet in no instance has he pointed out any
thing which originated with himself; nor is there any statement
in the text, except the one I have just quoted, which would
lead the reader to any other conclusion than that the whole is

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