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Jones, Alexander, author.
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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.
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A portable cosmos : ...
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A portable cosmos : revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, scientific wonder of the ancient world / Alexander Jones.
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Jones, Alexander, author.
New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, c2017.
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.
ISBN:
9780199739349 (hardback) :
019973934X (hardback)
Description:
xiv, 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Contents:
1. The wreck and the discovery -- 2. The investigations -- 3. Looking at the mechanism -- 4. Calendars and games -- 5. Stars, sun, and moon -- 6. Eclipses -- 7. The wanderers -- 8. Hidden workings -- 9. Afterword: The meaning of the mechanism.
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"The Antikythera Mechanism, now 82 small fragments of corroded bronze, was an ancient Greek machine simulating the cosmos as the Greeks understood it. Reflecting the most recent researches, A Portable Cosmos presents it as a gateway to Greek astronomy and technology and their place in Greco-Roman society and thought"--Provided by publisher.
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