A Portable Cosmos

A Portable Cosmos
Author: Alexander Jones
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 019973934X


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"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"--