Biton
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- engineer · mathematician · writer
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- Ancient Greek
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- 1.Andreola. Lexikon historikomythikon kai geographikon (etc.)(Historisch-mythologisches und geographisches Wörterbuch etc.) neograece. 78. 1834.
- 2.www.treccani.it.
- 3.When was Biton?. 10.1163/1568525991528860.
- 4., Diodor von Sizilien 14,42,1 und die Erfindung der Artillerie im Mittelmeerraum, in Frankfurter elektronische Rundschau zur Altertumskunde 3 (2006) p. 17.
- 5.Greek Science of the Hellenistic Era: A Sourcebook.
- 6.Dezobry et Bachelet, Dictionnaire de biographie, t.1, Ch.Delagrave, 1876, p.306
- 7.Simon Hornblower, "Biton", in Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth (eds.), The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd rev. ed. (Oxford University Press, 2005). The Greek may be transliterated Kataskeuai polemikon organon kai katapaltikon.
- 8.Poliorkētika kai poliorkiai diaphorōn : Poliorcétique des Grecs : traités thēoriques . 1867.
- 9.Francesco Fiorucci, "Biton of Pergamon", in Roger S. Bagnall, Kai Brodersen, Craige B. Champion and Andrew Erskine (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (Wiley, 2013), pp. 1140–41. Tradução da obra de Biton, sob o título de Construction of War Engines and Artillery.
- 10.Greek and Roman Artillery. Technical Treatises.
- 11.Greek and Roman Artillery. Historical Development.
- 12.Ateneo, Deipnosofistas 14.634.
- 13.Head, Duncan. Armies of the Macedonian and Punic Wars. 340. 2012. 978-1-326-56051-5.
- 14.Lahanas, Michael. Ancient Greek Artillery Technology from Catapults to the Architronio Canon. www.hellenicaworld.com.
- 15.Archytas of Tarentum: Pythagorean, Philosopher and Mathematician King.
- 16.www.perseus.tufts.edu.
- 17.Bitons Bau von Belagerungsmaschinen und Geschützen - Abhandlungen der bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
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