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Lang Matl
Author Marchant, Jo (Joanna)

Title 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

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Location Call No. 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
Subject Antikythera mechanism (Ancient calculator)
Astronomical clocks -- Greece -- History
Greece -- Antiquities
ISBN 030681742X