THE PNEUMATICS OF HERO OF ALEXANDRIA FROM THE ORIGINAL GREEK TRANSLATED FOR AND EDITED BY BENNET WOODCROFT PROFESSOR OF MACHINERY IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON LONDON TAYLOR WALTON AND MABERLY UPPER GOWER STREET AND IVY LANE PATERNOSTER ROW 1851 Contents Editors Preface. Translators Preface. A Treatise on Pneumatics. 1. The bent Siphon 2. Concentric or inclosed Siphon 3. Uniform discharge Siphon ...

ALCMAN on Sparta The Suda Lexicon, s.v. Alcman: A Laconian of Messoa, wrongly called by Crates a Lydian of Sardis. A lyric poet, the son of Damas, or (according to some authorities) of Titaros. he flourished in the 37th Olympiad (632-629), when Ardys father of Alyattes was king of Lydia. He was of an extremely amorous disposition and the inventor of love-poems, but by birth a slave. He wrote six ...

ASPASIA ~ THE WOMAN BEHIND THE GREAT MEN of 5TH CENTURY B.C. Throughout history many great contributors have either been eliminated or left out of the western history, most of which are women, one being Aspasia of Miletus. Aspasia came to Athens from Miletus, she was a highly educated women, from a literate family. Aspasia is definetly an exception to the normal young women of the 5th century, ...