Title:
Decoding the heavens : a 2,000-year-old-computer--and the century-long search to discover its secrets
Author:
Edition:
First Da Capo Press paperback edition.
Publication Date:
2010
2009
Publication Information:
Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2010.
©2009
Physical Description:
328 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9780306818615
9780306817427
Abstract:
The surprising story behind the 2,000-year-old Antikythera mechanism that challenges our assumptions about what ancient scientists knew, and the technological equipment they used to understand their world.
Contents:
I see dead people -- An impossible find -- Treasures of war -- Rewriting history -- A heroic reconstruction -- The moon in a box -- Mechanics workshop -- The new boys -- A stunning idea -- Old man of Syracuse.
Language:
English
