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PHILO OF BYZANTIUM

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 413 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PHILO OF See also:BYZANTIUM , See also:Greek writer on See also:mechanics, flourished during the latter See also:half of the 2nd See also:century B.C. (according to some, a century earlier). He was the author of a large See also:work Mip avu(i) uuvraEcs), of which the See also:fourth and (in See also:epitome) fifth books are extant, treating of missiles, the construction of fortresses, provisioning, attack and See also:defence (ed. R. Schone, 1893, with See also:German See also:translation in H. Kochly's Griechische Kriegsschriftstelkr, vol. i. 1853; E. A. Rochas d'Aiglun, Poliorcetique See also:des Grecs, 1872). Another portion of the work, on pneumatic engines, has been preserved in the See also:form of a Latin translation (De ingeniis spiritualibus) made from an Arabic version (ed. W. See also:Schmidt, with German translation, in the See also:works of See also:Heron of See also:Alexandria, vol. i., in " Teubner See also:Series," 1899; with See also:French translation by Rochas, La See also:Science des philosophes .

. . dans l'antiquite, 1882). A little See also:

treatise On the Seven Wonders of the See also:World, wrongly attributed to Philo, probably belongs to the 6th century A.D. It is printed in R. Hercher's See also:Aelian (1858).

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