Heronis mechanici Liber de machinis bellicis necnon Liber de geodaesia
By: a Francisco Barocio patritio Veneto Latinitate donati, multis mendis expurgati, & figuris, ac scholiis illustrati
Contributors: Barozzi, Francesco, 1537-1604, translator; Heron, of Byzantium; Franceschi, Francesco de; Reti, Ladislao
Publisher: Apud Franciscum Franciscium Senensem
Published: 1572
Place of publication: Venetiis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 74
Subjects: Military art and science; Early works to 1800; Siege warfare; Defensive (Military science); Offensive (Military science); Geodesy
Other titles: De machinis bellicis.; Liber de machinis bellicis.; Geodaesia.
Notes: Signatures: A-T⁴ V²

Publisher's device on title page.

Initials; headpieces; printed marginal notes.

Traditionally attributed to Hero of Alexandria; later research identifies author as Hero, of Byzantium, also known as Hero mechanicus and Hero tertius; cf. Dain, A. La tradition du texte d'Heron de Byzance.

Error in pagination: l. 70-72 misnumbered 72, 72, 74.

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, H373

Riccardi, P.  Bib. matematica, v. II, p. 83-84