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  • Jones, Alexander, author.
     
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  • Antikythera mechanism (Ancient calculator)
     
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  • Astronomy, Ancient -- Greece.
     
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  • Calendar, Greek.
     
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  • Science -- Greece -- History -- To 1500.
     
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  • Technology -- Greece -- History -- To 1500.
     
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  • Greece -- Intellectual life -- To 146 B.C.
     
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  • Greece -- Antiquities.
     
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  • Antikythēra Island (Greece) -- Antiquities.
     
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    A portable cosmos : revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, scientific wonder of the ancient world / Alexander Jones.
    by Jones, Alexander, author.
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    New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, c2017.
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  • Antikythera mechanism (Ancient calculator)
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  • Astronomy, Ancient -- Greece.
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  • Calendar, Greek.
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  • Science -- Greece -- History -- To 1500.
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  • Technology -- Greece -- History -- To 1500.
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  • Greece -- Intellectual life -- To 146 B.C.
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  • Greece -- Antiquities.
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  • 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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