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001 - CONTROL NUMBER
- control field: 5585
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
- control field: DLC
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
- control field: 20240724175155.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS
- fixed length control field: 090331|| anannbabn |a ana c
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
- LC control number: sh2009003044
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
- Original cataloging agency: ViU
- Language of cataloging: eng
- Transcribing agency: DLC
150 ## - HEADING--TOPICAL TERM
- Topical term or geographic name entry element: Antikythera mechanism (Ancient calculator)
550 ## - SEE ALSO FROM TRACING--TOPICAL TERM
- Control subfield: g
- Topical term or geographic name entry element: Astronomical clocks
550 ## - SEE ALSO FROM TRACING--TOPICAL TERM
- Control subfield: g
- Topical term or geographic name entry element: Mathematical instruments
670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND
- Source citation: Work cat.: Decoding the heavens : a 2,000-year-old computer--and the century-long search to discover its secrets, c2009:
- Information found: p. 1 (in Athens' National Archaeological Museum, three flat pieces that look like moldy cardboard are suspended inside glass case; beneath ancient, corroded surfaces, X-ray image shows delicate cogwheels, like inside of alarm clock; this is the Antikythera mechanism) p. 175 (Antikythera mechanism part of tradition of analogue computing) p. 265 (built around first century BC) p. 284 (Antikythera mechanism linked with Archimedes)
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- Source citation: Gears from the Greeks : the Antikythera Mechanism, the calendar computer from ca. 80 B.C, 1974.
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- Source citation: The ancient Greek computer from Rhodes, known as the Antikythera Mechanism, 1991.
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- Source citation: Robot evolution, 1994:
- Information found: p. 7 (Antikythera Mechanism (ca. 87 BC); found 1900 by Greek sponge divers near island it was named for; complex mechanical computer; earliest example of calculating device processing information through gearing to achieve answer)
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- Source citation: Oxford handbook of engineering and technology in the classical world, 2008:
- Information found: p. 744 (Antikythera Mechanism, sophisticated geared instrument recovered from shipwreck off Aegean island Antikythera; its geared wheels correlated motions of sun, moon, known planets, in epicyclic motion through zodiac, timed against Egyptian calendar; could also be used to compute eclipses)
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- Source citation: Wikipedia, Apr. 3, 2009
- Information found: (The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient mechanical calculator (also described as the first known mechanical computer) designed to calculate astronomical positions)