A portable cosmos [electronic resource] : revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, scientific wonder of the ancient world / Alexander Jones.
"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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New York, NY, United States of America :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
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.