A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190931490ISBN-10:190931493UPC:9780190931490Book Category:Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:History, Space Science, AncientBook Topic:Astronomy, GreeceSize:9.00 x 6.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCF052XZWV
A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190931490ISBN-10:190931493UPC:9780190931490Book Category:Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:History, Space Science, AncientBook Topic:Astronomy, GreeceSize:9.00 x 6.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCF052XZWV
Alexander Jones is Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.
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