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A Portable Cosmos
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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.
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A Portable Cosmos, Alexander Jones
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- 2019
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- Title
- A Portable Cosmos
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Alexander Jones
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Released
- 2019
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0190931493
- ISBN13
- 9780190931490
- Category
- Physics, Nature in general
- Description
- 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.