Hero of Alexandria

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Hero of Alexandria — idiom

1. A Greek mathematician, physicist, and engineer who lived around the 1st century

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Definition

A Greek mathematician, physicist, and engineer who lived around the 1st century AD, also known as Heron of Alexandria. He invented the first known steam engine (the aeolipile) and wrote works on mechanics, pneumatics, and geometry.

Example

Hero of Alexandria designed a steam-powered device called the aeolipile, long before the Industrial Revolution.

Many of Hero of Alexandria's writings on geometry were used as textbooks for centuries.