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

"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-Rom...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jones, Alexander (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Temas:
To 1500
Antikythera mechanism (Ancient calculator)
Astronomy, Ancient > Greece.
Calendar, Greek.
Science > Greece > History > To 1500.
Technology > Greece > History > To 1500.
Machine d'Anticythère.
Astronomie ancienne > Grèce.
Calendrier grec.
Sciences > Grèce > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1500.
HISTORY > Ancient > Greece.
Antiquities.
Astronomy, Ancient.
Intellectual life.
Science.
Technology.
Greece > Intellectual life > To 146 B.C.
Greece > Antiquities.
Antikythēra Island (Greece) > Antiquities.
Grèce > Vie intellectuelle > Jusqu'à 146 av. J.-C.
Grèce > Antiquités.
Greece.
Greece > Antikythēra Island.
Aigila/Ogylos (island)
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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