Philo of Byzantium

Overview

Works:	78 works in 224 publications in 8 languages and 1,299 library holdings
Genres:	History Military history Dictionaries Sources Criticism, interpretation, etc
Roles:	Author
Classifications:	D5, 355.440937

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Most widely held works about Philo

Ktesibios, philon and heron; a study in ancient pneumatics by A. G Drachmann( Book )
Philo Mechanicus : On sieges by Philo( Book )
Griechische Kriegsschriftsteller. Griechisch und deutsch, mit kritischen und erklärenden Anmerkungen by Hermann Köchly( )
De Philonis Byzantii dicendi genere by Max Arnim( Book )
Pneumatica : the first treatise on experimental physics : Western version and Eastern version by Philo( Book )

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Most widely held works by Philo

Le livre des appareils pneumatiques et des machines hydrauliques by Philo( Book )

19 editions published between 1902 and 1971 in French and held by 128 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Philonis Mechanicae syntaxis libri quartus et quintus by Philo( Book )

18 editions published between 1893 and 2018 in 5 languages and held by 89 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Pneumatica : the 1. treatise on experimental physics, western version and eastern version : facs. and transcript of the Latin manuscript, CLM 534, Bayer. Staatsbibliothek, Munich : transl. and ill. of the Arabic manuscript, A.S. 3713, Aya-Sofya, Istanbul by Philo( Book )

3 editions published in 1974 in English and held by 87 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Recherches de poliorcétique grecque by Yvon Garlan( Book )

2 editions published in 1974 in French and held by 79 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Aeliani De natura animalium, varia historia, epistolae et fragmenta. Porphyrii philosophi de abstinenta et de antro nympharum. Philonis Byzantii de septem orbis spectaculis by Aelian( Book )

14 editions published between 1850 and 1858 in 3 languages and held by 64 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Anecdota Graeca et Graecolatina : Mitteilungen aus Handschriften zur Geschichte der griechischen Wissenschaft by Valentin Rose( Book )

11 editions published between 1864 and 1963 in German and Latin and held by 60 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Naturwissenschaft (Mittelalter)

Philons Belopoiika (viertes buch der Mechanik) Griechisch und deutsch by Philo( Book )

3 editions published in 1919 in German and held by 56 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Reiseführer zu den sieben Weltwundern : Philon von Byzanz und andere antike Texte by Philo( Book )

4 editions published in 1992 in German and held by 48 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Enthält u.a.: De septem miraculis = Die Sieben Weltwunder / Philon von Byzanz

Exzerpte aus Philons Mechanik b. VII und VIII (vulgo fünftes Buch) Griechisch und Deutsch by Philo( Book )

9 editions published between 1919 and 1989 in German and Greek, Ancient and held by 32 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Traité de fortification d'attaque et de défense des places by Philo( )

5 editions published in 1872 in French and held by 29 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Mechanica syntaxis : Libri quartus et quintus by Philo( Book )

4 editions published in 1893 in German and Undetermined and held by 26 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Philonis Byzantini Libellus de septem orbis spectaculis : graece cum versione latina duplici Dionysii Salvagnii Boesii et Leonis Allatii ; textum recognovit notas Leonis Allatii, Frid. Jac. Bastii aliorumque et suas, aliorum scriptorum veterum de iisdem septem spectaculis testimonia, fragmenta Callinici sophistae et Adriani Tyrii atque indicem graecitatis by Philo( Book )

4 editions published in 1816 in Latin and held by 26 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Philo Mechanicus : On sieges by Philo( Book )

4 editions published in 2016 in English and Greek, Ancient and held by 22 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Towards the end of the second century BCE Philo of Byzantium, a.k.a. Philo Mechanicus, wrote what is held to be the first Engineering Compendium, in eight or nine parts. Three concern warfare, viewed theoretically: a technical treatise on catapult-design (Belopoiika), and two associated ones which survive only in (lengthy) epitome. United here under the title On Sieges, Paraskeuastika and Poliorketika address broader aspects of siege-warfare. First and primarily, withstanding a siege is the objective: cities must design and build towers, walls and gates in the most suitable way, stockpile and manage food and other strategic commodities, and resist a direct assault by men and machines. Then more briefly the perspective is reversed, with those who wish to conduct such an attack shown how to do so successfully.This is the work's first-ever complete translation into English, preceded by an Introduction on the writer and his work. The Commentary - the first since Garlan's in 1972 - aims to elucidate the multifarious matters arising: issues of text, translation, vocabulary, idiom; themes in the poliorcetic genre; archaeological and other substantive contexts."

Philo Byzantius De septum orbus spectaculis by Philo( Book )

5 editions published in 1640 in Latin and held by 20 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Veterum mathematicorum Athenæi, Apollodori, Philonis, Bitonis, Heronis, et aliorum opera : Græce et Latine pleraque nunc primum edita. Ex manuscriptis codicibus Bibliothecæ Regiæ by Jean Boivin( Book )

5 editions published in 1693 in Latin and held by 20 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Philōnos Mēchanikēs syntaxeōs : libri quartus et quintus by Philo( )

1 edition published in 1891 in Greek, Ancient and held by 11 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Philo Byzantivs De septem orbis spectacvlis, Leonis Allatii opera nunc primum græcè & latinè prodit, cum notis by Philo( Book )

1 edition published in 1640 in Latin and held by 10 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Veterum mathematicorum Athenaei, Bitonis, Apollodori, Heronis, Philonis, et aliorum opera, graece et latine, pleraque nunc primum edita by Athenaeus( Book )

4 editions published in 1693 in Latin and Greek, Ancient and held by 9 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Philo byzantius. De Septem orbis spectaculis, Leonis Allatii opera nunc primum graece et latine prodit, cum notis by Philo( Book )

2 editions published in 1640 in Latin and held by 7 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Libellus de septem orbis spectaculis by Philo( Book )

2 editions published in 1816 in Latin and German and held by 7 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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