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Pages: 286
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-26 - Publisher: Springer

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This book presents a systematic design methodology for decoding the interior structure of the Antikythera mechanism, an astronomical device from ancient Greece.
Decoding the Heavens
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Authors: Jo Marchant
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In Decoding the Heavens, Jo Marchant tells for the first time the full story of the hundred-year quest to decipher the ancient Greek computer known as the Antik
Decoding the Heavens
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Pages: 338
Authors: Josephine Marchant
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-02-10 - Publisher: Da Capo Press

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The story of the discovery and study of what came to be known as the, "Antikythera mechanism".
Decoding the Heavens
Language: en
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Categories: Antikythera mechanism (Ancient calculator)
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In 1900 a group of sponge divers blown off course in the Mediterranean discovered an Ancient Greek shipwreck near the island of Antikythera dating from around 7
A Portable Cosmos
Language: en
Pages: 313
Authors: Alexander Jones
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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. Reflectin