Hero of Alexandria
成語所屬單字hero
Hero of Alexandria — 慣用語
1. A Greek mathematician, physicist, and engineer who lived around the 1st century
1.慣用語
釋義
A Greek mathematician, physicist, and engineer who lived around the 1st century AD, also known as Heron of Alexandria. He invented the first known steam engine (the aeolipile) and wrote works on mechanics, pneumatics, and geometry.
例句
Hero of Alexandria designed a steam-powered device called the aeolipile, long before the Industrial Revolution.
Many of Hero of Alexandria's writings on geometry were used as textbooks for centuries.