caa a22 4500 606223991 CHVBK 20210128101141.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00407-014-0148-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00407-014-0148-2 Masià Ramon Centre Alexandre Koyré, 27, rue Damesme, 4e étage, 75013, Paris, France aut On dating Hero of Alexandria [Elektronische Daten] [Ramon Masià] The dating of Hero of Alexandria has been linked with the lunar eclipse of March 13, ad 62, since Otto Neugebauer discovered that this eclipse is the only one that can fit the one described in Hero's Dioptra 35. Although only a number of scholars claim that Hero himself observed the eclipse, almost all of them take Neugebauer's identification for granted. We use statistical and linguistic methods to criticize this assumption: all indices we have found point to the fact that the eclipse was merely invented as an example and, for that reason, that it cannot be used to determine Hero's life span. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2015 Archive for History of Exact Sciences Springer Berlin Heidelberg 69/3(2015-05-01), 231-255 0003-9519 69:3<231 2015 69 407 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-014-0148-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-014-0148-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Masià Ramon Centre Alexandre Koyré, 27, rue Damesme, 4e étage, 75013, Paris, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archive for History of Exact Sciences Springer Berlin Heidelberg 69/3(2015-05-01), 231-255 0003-9519 69:3<231 2015 69 407