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curprev 20:3920:39, 25 June 2024‎ 2a02:6b67:e952:f800:1df2:1bd0:a7b0:7836 talk‎ 23,216 bytes +112‎ →‎Life and career: Formatting Katz reference undo Tag: Reverted
curprev 20:3620:36, 25 June 2024‎ 2a02:6b67:e952:f800:1df2:1bd0:a7b0:7836 talk‎ 23,104 bytes +12‎ Undid revision 1229452280 by Demetrios1993 (talk). Sarton makes a similar assessment and names Hero while doing so. Hero was part of the Hellenistic tradition. undo Tags: Undo Reverted
curprev 20:3420:34, 25 June 2024‎ 2a02:6b67:e952:f800:1df2:1bd0:a7b0:7836 talk‎ 23,092 bytes +27‎ →‎Life and career undo Tag: Reverted
curprev 20:3320:33, 25 June 2024‎ 2a02:6b67:e952:f800:1df2:1bd0:a7b0:7836 talk‎ 23,065 bytes +1,030‎ →‎Life and career: Sarton was specifically referring to Hero's origins as Egyptian, distinguishing from non-Egyptians in Egypt. Added quote for clarification. undo Tag: Reverted

curprev 22:0122:01, 16 June 2024‎ Demetrios1993 talk contribs‎ 22,035 bytes −12‎ Undid revision 1229244455 by 2A00:23C6:1EA9:3C01:258A:8B1E:C81B:A7AE (talk) Firstly, this designation doesn't concern his ethnicity; secondly, Katz (1998, p. 184), which is the only source used to support the other view, gives a very general hypothesis without even mentioning Hero explicitly. undo Tags: Undo Reverted

curprev 18:1418:14, 15 June 2024‎ 2a00:23c6:1ea9:3c01:258a:8b1e:c81b:a7ae talk‎ 22,047 bytes +12‎ Undid revision 1228682139 by Khirurg (talk). His ethnicity is disputed according to Life section. And as Jacobolus said in a previous edit, it's misleading ethno-nationalism. undo Tags: Undo Reverted

curprev 04:0104:01, 14 May 2024‎ Khirurg talk contribs‎ 22,043 bytes −4‎ restored pre-IP disruption version undo Tag: Manual revert
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curprev 23:3823:38, 6 May 2024‎ Jacobolus talk contribs‎ 22,041 bytes −2‎ we can put "hellenistic mathematician" if people object to "greek". undo Tag: Reverted
curprev 23:3023:30, 6 May 2024‎ Jacobolus talk contribs‎ 22,043 bytes −7‎ rv. misleading ethno-nationalism. "Alexandria" and "Egypt" are prominently mentioned here. we have no knowledge whatsoever of Heron's ethnicity, and he wrote in Greek, as part of the tradition of Greek mathematics, which while influenced by other mathematical traditions was its own distinct thing undo Tag: Undo
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curprev 07:1707:17, 7 April 2024‎ Demetrios1993 talk contribs‎ 22,043 bytes −6‎ Manually reverting good faith edit (diff); that's not how the sources describe him, and the fact that he lived during the Roman era is already included at the end of the sentence. undo

curprev 03:1603:16, 1 April 2024‎ Mucube talk contribs‎ 22,049 bytes −541‎ remove useless cultural references section undo

curprev 09:3909:39, 13 February 2024‎ Begocc talk contribs‎ 22,584 bytes +1,699‎ Reverting edit(s) by 86.3.113.79 (talk) to rev. 1204512658 by Jacobolus: Unexplained content removal (UV 0.1.5) undo Tags: Ultraviolet Undo
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curprev 07:3407:34, 7 February 2024‎ Jacobolus talk contribs‎ 22,584 bytes −266‎ →‎Life and career: Lienhard does not mention Hero's ethnicity. The phrase "Egyptian engineer whose only autobiography is his creative product" is just referring to his nationality, and indeed highlights that we *don''t know* anything about his life beyond the city undo
curprev 07:2907:29, 7 February 2024‎ Jacobolus talk contribs‎ 22,850 bytes −130‎ →‎Life and career: all Sarton says is that Hero "came from Egypt". it doesn't say anything about his ethnicity or say anything else specific about him. it's not clear what Sarton's source is supposed to be; overall this is a poor source about this subject undo
curprev 06:2406:24, 7 February 2024‎ Harryhenry1 talk contribs‎ 22,980 bytes +2,235‎ Restored sourced information undo Tag: Manual revert

curprev 11:1811:18, 3 February 2024‎ PCC556 talk contribs‎ 20,745 bytes −2,235‎ There's no evidence to say Heron was hellenized egyptian since we don't know where Heron was born. Most scholars that worked in Alexandria of which we know their birthplace where born outside Egypt in other regions of the Hellenistic world like Aristophanes, Zenodot, Aristarchus of Samothrace, Galen, Apollodorus of Athens, Philostephanus, Archimedes, Bacchius of Tanagra, Herophilos, undo Tags: Reverted Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit

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curprev 15:2515:25, 4 December 2023‎ Jacobolus talk contribs‎ m 22,943 bytes −3‎ rvv undo Tag: Undo
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