Which language translations have preserved Hero's works?
Chinese
Latin and Arabic
Sanskrit
English
Answer
The body of Hero of Alexandria's works survived antiquity primarily through translations into Latin and Arabic. His most influential text was "On the Pneumatics," which extensively influenced early Islamic engineering. However, the original Greek texts were lost during the decline of the Western Roman Empire. Later translations into Latin from the Arabic versions facilitated the transmission of Hero's ideas into the European Renaissance and modern science.
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