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A Portable Cosmos - Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World (Hardcover)
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A Portable Cosmos - Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World (Hardcover)
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In 1901 divers salvaging antiquities from a Hellenistic shipwreck
serendipitously recovered the shattered and corroded remains of an
ancient Greek gear-driven device, now known as the Antikythera
Mechanism. Since its discovery, scholars relying on direct
inspection and on increasingly powerful radiographic tools and
surface imaging have successfully reconstructed most of the
functions and workings of the Mechanism. It was a machine
simulating the cosmos as the Greeks understood it, with a half
dozen dials displaying coordinated cycles of time and the movements
of the Sun, Moon, and planets. A Portable Cosmos presents the
Antikythera Mechanism as a gateway to understanding Greek astronomy
and scientific technology and their place in Greco-Roman society
and thought. Although the Mechanism has long had the reputation of
being an object we would not have expected the ancient world to
have produced, the most recent researches have revealed that its
displays were designed so that an educated layman would see how
astronomical phenomena were intertwined with one's natural and
social environment. It was at once a masterpiece of the genre of
wonder-working devices that mimicked nature by means concealed from
the viewer, and a mobile textbook of popular science.
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