Lucio Russo
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Lucio Russo was an Italian physicist, mathematician and historian of science. Born in Venice, he taught at the Mathematics Department of the University of Rome Tor Vergata. He died in Bologna on 12 Ju
Russo in 2014
Hero of Alexandria
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Hero of Alexandria was a Greek mathematician and engineer who was active in Alexandria during the Roman era. He has been described as the greatest experimentalist of antiquity and a representative of
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…the results were lost as well. Thus, Russo conjectures that the definitions of elementary geometric objects were introduced in Euclid's Elements by Heron of Alexandria, 400 years after the work was completed. More concretely, Russo shows how the theory of tides must have been well developed in Antiquity, because several…
Depiction in the Codex of Saint Gregory Nazianzus, Greek manuscript, 9th cent.
The book About automata by Hero of Alexandria (1589 edition)