Heron of Alexandria (c. 10 AD - c. 70 AD)

• greatest experimenter of antiquity
• teacher at Musaeum
• author of works like Pneumatica, Automata, Mechanica, On the dioptra, Belopoeica, Catoptrica, Geodesia, Geoponica etc.
• father of cybernetics

17th-century German depiction of Hero