A portable cosmos : revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, scientific wonder of the ancient world /

From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Terracotta Army, ancient artifacts have long fascinated the modern world. However, the importance of some discoveries is not always immediately understood. This was the case in 1901 when sponge divers retrieved a lump of corroded bronze from a shipwreck at the bottom...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jones, Alexander (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Subjects:	Antikythera mechanism (Ancient calculator) Astronomy, Ancient > Greece. Calendar, Greek. Science > Greece > History > To 1500. Technology > Greece > History > To 1500. Greece > Intellectual life > To 146 B.C. Greece > Antiquities. Antikythēra Island (Greece) > Antiquities. HISTORY / Ancient / Greece.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. The Wreck and the Discovery
Chapter 2. The Investigations
Chapter 3. Looking at the Mechanism
Chapter 4. Calendars and Games
Chapter 5. Stars, Sun, and Moon
Chapter 6. Eclipses
Chapter 7. The Wanderers
Chapter 8. Hidden Workings
Chapter 9. Afterword: The Meaning of the Mechanism.