Biton of Pergamon
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Biton of Pergamon
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Biton of Pergamon was an ancient Greek writer and engineer, who lived in the second or third century BC. Only two of his works are known: a lost book on optics, entitled Optics, and an extant short treatise on siege machines, Construction of War Machines and Catapults. The military treatise is dedicated to a king named Attalus, evidently a king of Pergamon, either Attalus I (241–197) or Attalus II (159–38). Some scholars have suggested, based on internal evidence, that the text should date to 15
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Ancient Greek writer
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