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245 12 A portable cosmos :|brevealing the Antikythera Mechanism,
scientific wonder of the ancient world /|cAlexander Jones.
264 1 New York, NY, United States of America :|bOxford
University Press,|c[2017]
264 4 |c©2017
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504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-280) and
index.
505 0 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.
520 2 "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 society and thought"--|cProvided by
publisher.
520 2 "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 the bottom 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. Its remains 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, many of
the secrets locked in this mysterious device can now be
revealed. In addition to chronicling the unlikely
discovery of the Antikythera Mechanism, author Alexander
Jones takes readers through a discussion of how the device
worked, how and for what purpose it was created, and why
it was on a ship that wrecked off the Greek coast around
60 BC. What the Mechanism has uncovered about Greco-Roman
astronomy and scientific technology, and their place in
Greek society, is truly amazing. The mechanical know-how
that it embodied was more advanced than anything the
Greeks were previously thought capable of, but the most
recent research has revealed that its displays were
designed so that an educated layman could understand the
behavior of astronomical phenomena, and how intertwined
they were with one's natural and social environment. It
was at once a masterpiece of machinery as well as one of
the first portable teaching devices. Written by a world-
renowned expert on the Mechanism, A Portable Cosmos will
fascinate all readers interested in ancient history,
archaeology, and the history of science"--|cProvided by
publisher.
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776 08 |iPrint version:|aJones, Alexander.|tPortable cosmos.|dNew
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