KnowraHero of AlexandriaLinked fromLinked fromThe 10 pages that link to Hero of Alexandria, each with the reason it gives.All 10Related 10Heron's formulaRelated: His work gives the formula its conventional name.BrahmaguptaRelated: Heron’s triangle-area formula provides a close geometric antecedent to Brahmagupta’s quadrilateral result.Fermat's principleRelated: Heron's shortest-path argument for reflection foreshadowed a variational approach to optics.AutomatonRelated: His treatises preserve detailed designs for self-operating mechanisms.Vending machineRelated: His first-century coin-operated holy-water dispenser is an early vending-machine design.Philo of ByzantiumRelated: Hero drew on earlier engineering traditions that overlap with Philo's technical subjects.Ancient Greek technologyRelated: His technical treatises record the later Greek tradition of ingenious devices.BallistaRelated: His writings document the engineering culture in which later ballista designs were understood.History of robotsRelated: His designs document ancient experiments with automatic mechanisms.PolybolosRelated: His later technical tradition helps place the polybolos among ancient automated mechanisms.