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Book Title
Gears from the Greeks
Subtitle
The Antikythera Mechanism -- a Calendar Computer from Ca. 80 B.C.
EAN
9780871696472
ISBN
9780871696472
Release Date
01/01/1974
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Genre
History
Topic
Ancient History
Title
Gears from the Greeks
Release Year
1974

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
American Philosophical Society
ISBN-10
0871696479
ISBN-13
9780871696472
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1610960

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
277 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Gears from the Greeks : The Antikythera Mechanism -- a Calendar Computer from Ca. 80 B. C. , Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 64, Part 7)
Subject
Ancient / Greece, Hardware / Mobile Devices
Publication Year
1974
Type
Textbook
Author
Derek De Solla Price
Subject Area
Computers, History
Series
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Item Length
11 in
Item Width
8.3 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN
74-084369
Series Volume Number
815
Illustrated
Yes
Synopsis
The first great discovery in underwater archaeology yielded not only a fine collection of art treasures but also the most enigmatic, most complicated piece of scientific machinery known from antiquity. This artifact is now identified as an astronomical or calendrical calculating device involving a very sophisticated arrangement of more than thirty gear-wheels., Contents: Discovery of the Antikythera shipwreck; Discovery of and research on the mechanism fragments, 1902-73; The casing, general construction, and dial work; The arrangement of the plates and components of the mechanism; The door plates and orientation and use of the mechanism; The accuracy of gear teeth numbers; Description of individual gears and gear trains; The inscriptions; The Antikythera mechanism as an historical document; The early history of gearing and clockwork; and The invention of complicated clockwork and the differential gear. App.: Composition of the metal fragments (contrib. by Earle Caley and Cyril Smith); and Tech. note on radiography of fragments. Illus.

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