Hero of Alexandria and his Theatrical Automata

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The treatise On Making Automata seems originally to have been in two books, one for each automaton, although it is conventionally numbered in sections continuously. Sections are conventionally subdivided into paragraphs. The numbering scheme goes back to the MS tradition.

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