Hero the Younger
Hero the younger is the name given without any sufficient reason to a Byzantine land-surveyor who wrote (about AD 938) a treatise on land-surveying modelled on the works of Hero of Alexandria, especially the Dioptra.
Literature
- Geodesie de Heron de Byzance, published by Vincent in Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Imperiale, xix. 2 (Paris, 1858)
- T. H. Martin in Memoires presentes Academie des Inscript i ons, 1st series, iv. (Paris, 1854).
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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