Description: 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gear teeth numbers; Description of individual gears and gear trains; The inscriptions; The Antikythera mechanism as an historical document; The early history of gearing and clockwork; and The invention of complicated clockwork and the differential gear.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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EAN: 9780871696472
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Book Title: Gears from the Greeks: The Antikythera Mechanism -
Number of Pages: 70 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)
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Publication Year: 1974
Subject: Ancient / Greece, Hardware / Mobile Devices
Item Height: 0.6 in
Item Weight: 23.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Computers, History
Author: Derek De Solla Price
Item Length: 11 in
Series: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society Ser.
Item Width: 8.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback
