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THE YOUNGER HERO

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 379 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THE YOUNGER See also:

HERO  , the name given without any sufficient See also:reason to a See also:Byzantine See also:land-surveyor who wrote (about A.D . 938) a See also:treatise on land-See also:surveying modelled on the See also:works of See also:Hero of See also:Alexandria, especially the Dioptra . See " Geodesie de See also:Heron de Byzance," published by See also:Vincent in Notices et extraits See also:des manuscrits de la Bibliothique Imperiale, xix . 2 (See also:Paris, 1858), and T . H . See also:Martin in Memoires presentee a 1' Academie des See also:Inscriptions, 1st See also:series, iv . (Paris, 1854) .

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