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Noun: Hero of Alexandria
  1. Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)
    - Hero, Heron

Type of: artificer, discoverer, inventor, mathematician

Encyclopedia: Hero of Alexandria

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