A portable cosmos [electronic resource] : 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:	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.
Online Access:	EBSCO eBooks: 2017 (EBSCO) eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2017 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:	A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World
Format:	Electronic eBook

A portable cosmos : revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, scientific wonder of the ancient world

Authors: Jones, Alexander
Published: Oxford University Press, 2017

Physical Description: xiv, 288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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