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==Further reading== *{{cite book |last=Drachmann |first=A. G. |author-link=A. G. Drachmann |year=1963 |title=The Mechanical Technology of Greek and Roman Antiquity: A Study of the Literary Sources |location=Madison |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |isbn=0598742557 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8jQzwAEACAAJ}} * {{cite encyclopedia |last=Drachmann |first=A. G. |author-link=A. G. Drachmann |year=1972 |chapter=Hero of Alexandria |pages=310–314 |encyclopedia=Dictionary of Scientific Biography |editor-last=Gillispie |editor-first=Charles Coulston |volume=6 (Hachette–Hyrtl) |place=New York |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |lccn=69-18090 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofscie6gill/page/310/mode/1up?q=%22Hero+%28or+Heron%29%22 |chapter-url-access=limited }} *{{cite book |last=Landels |first=J. G. |year=2000 |title=Engineering in the ancient world |location=Berkeley |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=0-520-22782-4 |edition=2nd |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780520227828 }} * {{cite encyclopedia |chapter=Hero of Alexandria: Mathematics |last=Mahoney |first=Michael S. |pages=314–315 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofscie6gill/page/314/mode/1up?q=%22Hero+of+Alexandria%3A+Mathematics%22 |chapter-url-access=limited |encyclopedia=Dictionary of Scientific Biography |editor-last=Gillispie |editor-first=Charles Coulston |volume=6 (Hachette–Hyrtl) |place=New York |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|lccn=69-18090 |year=1972 }} *{{cite book|last=Marsden|first=E.W.|title=Greek and Roman Artillery: Technical Treatises|url=https://archive.org/details/greekromanartill0000mars|url-access=registration|year=1969|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford}} *{{cite book |last1=Roby |first1=Courtney Ann |title=The mechanical tradition of Hero of Alexandria: strategies of reading from antiquity to the early modern period |date=2023 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge; New York |isbn=9781316516232}} *{{cite book |last=Schellenberg |first=Hans Michael |year=2008 |chapter=Anmerkungen zu Heron von Alexandria und seinem Werk ueber den Geschuetzbau |editor-last1=Birley |editor-first1=Anthony Richard |editor-last2=Hirschmann |editor-first2=Vera-Elisabeth |editor-last3=Krieckhaus |editor-first3=Andreas |editor-last4=Schellenberg |editor-first4=Hans Michael |display-editors=1 |title=A Roman Miscellany: Essays in Honour of Anthony R. Birley on His Seventieth Birthday |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DBQMAQAAMAAJ |isbn=978-8375311464 |publisher=Foundation for the Development of Gdańsk University }}
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