Gears from the Greeks: The Antikythera Mechanism -- A Calendar Computer from Ca. 80 B.C., Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 64, Part

By Derek J. De Solla Price and Derek John de Solla Price

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871696479
• ISBN13: 9780871696472
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 70 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.3" x 11.0"