Heronis Alexandrini Opera quae supersunt omnia

Hero of Alexandria • 1899 • B.G. Teubneri

Author: Hero of Alexandria
First published: 1899
Publisher: B.G. Teubneri
Genres: Science

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This volume serves as a comprehensive collection of the surviving works by Hero of Alexandria, a significant figure in the history of ancient science and engineering. As a scholarly publication, it preserves essential texts that have influenced the study of mechanical theory and mathematical thought for centuries.

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Heronis Alexandrini Opera quae supersunt omnia was produced as part of the Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana, a prestigious collection established in the nineteenth century to provide scholarly, critical editions of classical texts. This specific volume, published in 1899, served as a foundational resource for academics and historians of technology, aiming to consolidate the scattered manuscripts of Hero of Alexandria, a mathematician and engineer whose work on pneumatics, mechanics, and geometry remains essential to our understanding of Hellenistic scientific thought.

The editorial work on this edition was spearheaded by scholars including Wilhelm Schmidt, who sought to reconstruct Hero’s complex diagrams and technical treatises with high philological accuracy. By utilizing the Teubner format—characterized by its rigorous text-critical apparatus and standardized Latin introductions—the publisher intended to provide a definitive reference for the European university system. The edition was received as a milestone in the study of ancient engineering, providing the primary authoritative source for many subsequent translations of Hero’s inventions, such as the aeolipile and his various automata.

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