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See also:PHILO OF See also:BYZANTIUM , See also:Greek writer on See also:mechanics, flourished during the latter See also:half of the 2nd See also:century B.C . (according to some, a century earlier) . He was the author of a large See also:work Mip avu(i) uuvraEcs), of which the See also:fourth and (in See also:epitome) fifth books are extant, treating of missiles, the construction of fortresses, provisioning, attack and See also:defence (ed . R . Schone, 1893, with See also:German See also:translation in H . Kochly's Griechische Kriegsschriftstelkr, vol. i . 1853; E . A . Rochas d'Aiglun, Poliorcetique See also:des Grecs, 1872) . Another portion of the work, on pneumatic engines, has been preserved in the See also:form of a Latin translation (De ingeniis spiritualibus) made from an Arabic version (ed . W . See also:Schmidt, with German translation, in the See also:works of See also:Heron of See also:Alexandria, vol. i., in " Teubner See also:Series," 1899; with See also:French translation by Rochas, La See also:Science des philosophes . . . dans l'antiquite, 1882) . A little See also:treatise On the Seven Wonders of the See also:World, wrongly attributed to See also:Philo, probably belongs to the 6th century A.D . It is printed in R . Hercher's See also:Aelian (1858) . |
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