The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria: From the Original Greek |
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| Title | The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria: From the Original Greek History of science library Inventions of the ancients |
| Author | Hero (of Alexandria.) |
| Editor | Bennet Woodcroft |
| Translated by | Joseph George Greenwood |
| Publisher | Taylor, Walton and Maberly, 1851 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | May 19, 2009 |
| Length | 117 pages |
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