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."