Decoding the Heavens A 2,000-Year-Old Computer -- and the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets
Decoding the Heavens A 2,000-Year-Old Computer -- and the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets
- ISBN 13:
9780306818615
- ISBN 10:
0306818612
- Edition: Reprint
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 03/02/2010
- Publisher: Da Capo Press
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Summary
Marchant details the 100-year quest to decode an ancient Greek computer device. This is the surprising story behind the 2,000-year-old mechanism that challenges modern assumptions about what ancient scientists knew, and the technological equipment they used to understand their world.