Decoding the heavens : a 2,000-year-old computer-- and the century-long search to discover its secrets / Jo Marchant.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo Press, 2009Edition: 1st Da Capo Press edDescription: 328 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 030681742X
- 9780306817427
- Antikythera mechanism (Ancient calculator)
- Astronomical clocks -- Greece -- History
- 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
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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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