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Hero of Byzantium???

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I don't know much about this subject, so I'm not editing the Ctesibius article, but I believe the reference to 'Hero of Byzantium' is meant be Hero of Alexandria. As far as I can tell, Hero of Byzantium lived six hundred years after Proclus. However, based on the summaries from a google search, Proclus did seem to comment on Hero of Alexandria. GalanM 23:34, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I don't know much about Ctesibius either, but I think you are right (based on a quick read of some classical dictionaries), and have edited it accordingly. (that was Wombat btw) Wombat~enwiki (talkcontribs) 04:03, 26 January 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Pneumatic cannon?

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I've read Ctesibius created a pneumatic catapult, or aerotonon, which used compressed air cylinders. See Dupuy, Evo of Weaps & Warfare, & J F C Fuller on the history of weapons. Trekphiler (talkcontribs) 19:13, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Spelling

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A book I've just read (science of discworld 3) and a very few google hits spell his name cestesibus. Any Idea where that comes from? 82.173.185.203

Yes it's a tpyo. --Wetman 18:36, 3 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
According to Greek language his name should be transliterated as Ctisivios - This is real greek name. English people never pay attention that latin B and cyrillic B one are not the same. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.106.2.72 (talk) 19:29, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
However, the whole of the non-Greek world pronounces the ancient Greek beta as a B not a V. I think the ancient Greeks also pronounced it as such. Check out beta. Myrvin (talk) 09:46, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Birth place reversion

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Regarding this edit 1230724390 by PCC556 (talk) which removed my addition of: "Ctesibius was the son of a barber, born c. 300 BCE, probably – but not certainly – in Alexandria. He began his career as a barber, following his father." Their edit summary stated: "the new version doesn't provide proper sources to state Csetilbius was born in Alexandria". How does this square with the source[1] provided?

"Born: Alexandria" was a longstanding claim in the article before PCC556's deletion of it. The source added says exactly what is stated above:[1]

Ctesibius (also spelled Ktesibios) was a Greek physicist and inventor who was probably born in Alexandria sometime around 300 B.C. He was the first of many Greeks to become part of the great ancient engineering tradition in Alexandria

— Hoffman (2001). In Neil Schlager (ed.) pp. 400–401

I modified the claim, softening it in light of their objection. In addition, PCC556 deleted this expansion of the lead: "Very little is known of Ctesibius' life, but his inventions were well known in his lifetime.[1] He was likely the first head of the Museum of Alexandria.", while also reverting: improved paragraphing; wiki markup per WP:MOS; and section organisation.

If the source is doubted – did they even read it? – then it needs to be discussed here. Please follow WP:BRD. As for the deleting the other elements, that was wholly unacceptable. AukusRuckus (talk) 10:51, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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