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The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, First Edition. Edited by Roger S. Bagnall, Kai Brodersen, Craige B. Champion, Andrew Erskine,
and Sabine R. Huebner, print pages 5266–5268.
© 2013 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Published 2013 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah21254
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SEE ALSO: Artillery; Catapults; Mechanics; physics, western version and eastern version.
Pneumatics; Science, Greek; Sieges and siegecraft, Wiesbaden.
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Syntaxis, libri quartus et quintus. Berlin.
Schmidt, W., ed. (1899) Heronis Alexandrini
EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS opera I: 458–89. Leipzig. (With German
translation.)
Carra de Vaux, B. (1902) Le livre des appareils
pneumatiques et machines hydrauliques par Philon
de Byzance, édité d’après les versions arabes
d’Oxford et de Constantinople et traduit en REFERENCES AND SUGGESTED READINGS
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(With German translation.) Drachmann, A. G. (1948) Ktesibios, Philon and
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