Decoding the heavens : a 2,000-year-old computer-- and the century-long search to discover its secrets /
Marchant, Josephine,
Decoding the heavens : a 2,000-year-old computer-- and the century-long search to discover its secrets / Jo Marchant. - 1st Da Capo Press ed. - 328 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Originally published: London : William Heinemann, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-318) and index.
I see dead people -- Impossible find -- Treasures of war -- Rewriting history -- Heroic reconstruction -- Moon in a box -- Mechanic's workshop -- New boys -- Stunning idea -- Old man of Syracuse.
The story of the discovery and study of what came to be known as the, "Antikythera mechanism."
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2008939733
Antikythera mechanism (Ancient calculator)
Astronomical clocks--History.--Greece
Antikythera mechanism (Ancient calculator)
Antiquities.
Astronomical clocks.
Greece--Antiquities.
Greece.
Scientific instrument Mid-East Antikythera mechanism calendar calculator Greece Da Capo Press, Cambridge Mass antique Merchant Jo Astronomy
History.
Decoding the heavens : a 2,000-year-old computer-- and the century-long search to discover its secrets / Jo Marchant. - 1st Da Capo Press ed. - 328 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Originally published: London : William Heinemann, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-318) and index.
I see dead people -- Impossible find -- Treasures of war -- Rewriting history -- Heroic reconstruction -- Moon in a box -- Mechanic's workshop -- New boys -- Stunning idea -- Old man of Syracuse.
The story of the discovery and study of what came to be known as the, "Antikythera mechanism."
030681742X 9780306817427
2008939733
Antikythera mechanism (Ancient calculator)
Astronomical clocks--History.--Greece
Antikythera mechanism (Ancient calculator)
Antiquities.
Astronomical clocks.
Greece--Antiquities.
Greece.
Scientific instrument Mid-East Antikythera mechanism calendar calculator Greece Da Capo Press, Cambridge Mass antique Merchant Jo Astronomy
History.