A portable cosmos : revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, scientific wonder of the ancient world / 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. Reflecting the most recent researches, A Portable Cosmos presents it as a gateway to Greek astronomy and technology and their place in Greco-Roman so...

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Main Author: Jones, Alexander (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Mechanismus von Antikythera.
To 1500
Antikythera mechanism (Ancient calculator)
Astronomy, Ancient > Greece.
Calendar, Greek.
Science > Greece > History > To 1500.
Technology > Greece > History > To 1500.
HISTORY > Ancient > Greece.
Antiquities.
Astronomy, Ancient.
Intellectual life.
Science.
Technology.
39.01 history of astronomy.
Greece > Intellectual life > To 146 B.C.
Greece > Antiquities.
Antikythēra Island (Greece) > Antiquities.
Greece.
Greece > Antikythēra Island.
Aigila/Ogylos (island)
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xiv, 288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
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