Oil painting on canvas 164 x 166.79 cm 1638

This painting depicts Heron of Alexandria teaching his knowledge of the Aeolipile to Lucretia in her young age. This scene is linked to an ancient industrial revolution that was quickly suppressed by the powers that be at the beginning of the first millennium, plunging the whole of Europe into the Dark Ages and then into the Middle Ages.

This aborted industrial revolution is said to have originated with the invention of the steam engine by Heron of Alexandria ; In the 1st century B.C., the Greek scientist developed a steam-driven device he called the Aeolipile.

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