Kept Alive in Arabic
Philo's Pneumatics
الحِيَل الروحانيّة لفيلون
Philo wrote on devices worked by air and water pressure; its Greek original is lost, and it survives in Arabic more fully than in its Latin version, itself translated from the Arabic. It contains the earliest known description of a water wheel. Ibn Zulaq wrote of 'Philo of Byzantium, maker of wheels, mills and motions by subtle devices'.
- Author
- Philo of Byzantium (3rd century BC)
- Field
- Mechanics
- What Arabic kept
- The book, fuller than its Latin version
- Greek title
- Πνευματικά
- Arabic title
- كتاب فيلون في الحيل الروحانيّة
- Latin title
- De ingeniis spiritualibus
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