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Hero of Alexandria
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Noun1.Hero of Alexandria - Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)Hero of Alexandria - Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)
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Heron of Alexandria described the gastraphetes in the famous work the Belopoeica.
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In fact, the first automatic door was developed about 2,000 years ago by Greek mathematician and physicist Heron of Alexandria.
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