Decoding the heavens : a 2,000-year-old computer--and the century-long search to discover its secrets / Jo Marchant
Imprint
[Cambridge, Mass.] : Da Capo Press, 2009
Copies
Location
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Status
CCQ - Lusail Female Library
QB107
Available
Edition
1st Da Capo Press ed
Description
328 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm
Note
Originally published: London : Heinemann, 2008
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-318) and index
Contents
I see dead people -- An impossible find -- Treasures of war --Rewriting history -- A heroic reconstruction -- The moon in a box -- Mechanic's workshop -- The new boys -- A stunning idea -- Old man of Syracuse