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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)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

  • Source citation: Gears from the Greeks : the Antikythera Mechanism, the calendar computer from ca. 80 B.C, 1974.

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

  • Source citation: The ancient Greek computer from Rhodes, known as the Antikythera Mechanism, 1991.

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

  • 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)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

  • 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)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

  • 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)