Books -The Last Chapter ?.

Another work this time serious on the subject of the Ancient and Modern literatures was Sir William Temples On Ancient And Modern Learning published in 1690.This book is a precursor to that of Swift and in fact Sir William was a patron of Swift.  Swifts satire was basically a continuation of Temples argument that the  Ancients were the originators of Western thought  with the Moderns basically continuing and developing their work.An example of this is the so called invention of the steam engine.Work began in 17th century England    on steam engines to pump water from mines  long before James Watt(1736 to 1819).It is more than probable that the inspiration for this was Hero of Alexandrias model steam turbine. Hero wrote a book on mechanics which survived and was eventually published by the new printing press. The work contains a clear description of how to construct the model steam turbine along with a variety of other machines including a coin operated slot machine to dispense liquids.Is it not likely that amateur inventors and natural philosophers (the term scientist is a 19th century one) were inspired in  their developments of practical steam engines by Hero?.This would make Hero the actual father of the steam engine rather than as someone who somehow anticipated its actual invention by Newcomen and Watt.