MiataDrivers - Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer--and the Century-long Search to Discover Its Secrets
Jo Marchant
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Decoding the Heavens: A Jo Marchant epub Decoding the Heavens: A Jo Marchant pdf download Decoding the Heavens: A Jo Marchant pdf file Decoding the Heavens: A Jo Marchant audiobook Decoding the Heavens: A Jo Marchant book review Decoding the Heavens: A Jo Marchant summary | #180868 in Books | Jo Marchant | 2010-03-02 | 2010-03-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.30 x.78 x5.50l,.75 | File type: PDF | 344 pages | Decoding the Heavens A 2 000 Year Old Computer And the Century Long Search to Discover Its Secrets||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| An ancient Greek instrument changes the History of Science|By jcn|This book describes the search for understanding of the Antikythera mechanism. Built around 100 BC the device was so sophisticated and unique it took more than 100 yrs in the present day to understand. The book describes the search for knowledge of it's operation and what it means for the understanding of Greek|From Publishers Weekly|Starred . Marchant, editor of New Science, relates the century-long struggle of competing amateurs and scientists to understand the secrets of a 2000-year-old clock-like mechanism found in 1901 by Greek divers off the coast of Antikyther
In Decoding the Heavens, Jo Marchant tells for the first time the full story of the hundred-year quest to decipher the ancient Greek computer known as the Antikythera Mechanism. Along the way she unearths a diverse cast of remarkable characters and explores the deep roots of modern technology in ancient Greece and the medieval European and Islamic worlds. At its heart, this is an epic adventure and mystery, a book that challenges our assumptions about technol...
You easily download any file type for your device.Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer--and the Century-long Search to Discover Its Secrets | Jo Marchant. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
