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By : Alexander Jones
Book Synopsis :
From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Terracotta Army, ancient artifacts have long fascinated the modern world. However, the importance of some discoveries is not always immediately understood. This was the case in 1901 when sponge divers retrieved a lump of corroded bronze from a shipwreck at thebottom of the Mediterranean Sea near the Greek island of Antikythera. Little did the divers know they had found the oldest known analog computer in the world, an astonishing device that once simulated the motions of the stars and planets as they were understood by ancient Greek astronomers. Itsremains now consist of 82 fragments, many of them containing gears and plates engraved with Greek words, that scientists and scholars have pieced back together through painstaking inspection and deduction, aided by radiographic tools and surface imaging. More than a century after its discovery, manyof the secrets locked in this mysterious device can now be revealed.In addition to chronicling the unlikely .
Book Detail :
Tittle : A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World
Author : Alexander Jones
Pages : 312 pages
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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ISBN-10 : 019973934X
ISBN-13 : 9780199739349
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