Wonder-making and philosophical wonder in Hero of Alexandria
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Wonder-making and Philosophical Wonder in Hero of Alexandria Tybjerg, Karin
In his treatises Hero of Alexandria describes a range of devices for producing spectacles and generating wonder that have frequently been treated as marginal by historians of technology and science. In this paper I shall show that these devices and Hero’s emphasis on wonder-making are of central importance to the image that Hero presents of mechanics. Hero uses the concept of wonder to add an i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0039-3681
DOI: 10.1016/s0039-3681(03)00053-0