Philo of Byzantium

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Philo of Byzantium was a Hellenistic engineer and writer known for his works on mechanics and for one of the earliest surviving accounts of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

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Philo of Byzantium canonical 2
Philon of Byzantium 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Hellenistic engineer
ancient Greek engineer
mathematician
mechanical engineer
military engineer
person from the Hellenistic period
physicist
scientific author
writer
alternateName Philo Mechanicus
Philon of Byzantium
linked to: Philo of Byzantium
areaOfActivity Hellenistic science and technology
birthPlace Byzantion
linked to: Byzantium

Byzantium
ancient city of Byzantium
countryOfCitizenship Ancient Greece
linked to: Greek Antiquity
culture Hellenistic Greek
described Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
ethnicGroup Greek
fieldOfWork artillery
geometry
mechanics
military technology
physics
pneumatics
floruit c. 280–220 BC
gender male
influenced Hero of Alexandria
influencedBy Ctesibius
earlier Greek mathematicians
knownFor early account of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
treatises on mechanics
work on catapults and artillery
work on fortification and siegecraft
work on pneumatic devices
languageOfWorkOrName Ancient Greek
name Philo of Byzantium
notableWork Belopoeica
Compendium of Mechanics
De septem orbis spectaculis
Mechanike syntaxis
Paradoxa
Pneumatica
Poliorcetica
occupation author
engineer
inventor
residence Alexandria
Ptolemaic Egypt
linked to: Ptolemaic Kingdom
timePeriod 3rd century BC

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Philo of Byzantium name Philo of Byzantium
Philo of Byzantium alternateName Philon of Byzantium
linked to: Philo of Byzantium