Decoding the heavens : a 2,000-year-old computer-- and the century-long search to discover its secrets / Jo Marchant.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo Press, 2009Edition: 1st Da Capo Press edDescription: 328 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 030681742X
  • 9780306817427
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
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.
Summary: The story of the discovery and study of what came to be known as the, "Antikythera mechanism."

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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The story of the decodeing of the Antikythera mechanism told for a lay audience, 14 black and white illustrations

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