Hero of Alexandria in the Arabic tradition
Subtitle: texts ans studies
By: collected and reprinted by Fuat Sezgin ; in collaboration with Carl Ehrig-Eggert, Eckhard Neubauer, Farid Benfeghoul
Contributors: Ibn Faghūl, Farīd
Series: Publications of the Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science -- Natural sciences in islam = Manshūrāt Maʻhad tārīkh al-ʻulūm al-ʻarabīyah wa-al-islāmīyah -- Al-ʻulūm al-ṭabīʻīyah ʻinda al-ʻArab wa-al-muslimīn -- v. 38; Manshūrāt Maʻhad Tārīkh al-ʻUlūm al-ʻArabīyah wa-al-Islāmīyah -- 38
Publisher: Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main
Language: mul; fre; ara; lat; ita
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9783829870429
Subjects: Influence; Science; Sciences; Sciences naturelles arabes; Mécanique
Other titles: Hīrūn al-Iskandarānī ʻinda al-ʻArab : nuṣūṣ wa-dirāsāt
Notes: Added t.p. in Arabic: Hīrūn al-Iskandarānī ʻinda al-ʻArab : nuṣūṣ wa-dirāsāt.

Includes bibliographical references.

Texts in French, Arabic, Latin and Italian.
Table of contents: title: Heronis sive Operis de levandis rebus gravibus... / Golius, J. Göttingen, 1784-85; title: Les Mécaniques ou L'élévateur de Héron d'Alexandrie... / Carra de Vaux, B. Paris, 1893; title: Intorno alle Maccaniche di Erone Alessandrino... / Favaro, A. Venezia, 1893-94; title: Notice sur un manuscrit arabe traitant de machines... / Carra de Vaux, B. Leipzig, 1900