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Gears from the Greeks : The Antikythera Mechanism -- a Calendar Computer from Ca. 80 B. C. , Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 64, Part 7)
Gears from the Greeks : The Antikythera Mechanism -- a Calendar Computer from Ca. 80 B. C. , Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 64, Part 7)
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Author(s): Price, Derek de Solla
Solla de Price, Derek
ISBN No.: 9780871696472
Pages: 277
Year: 202401
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 132.24
Status: Out Of Print

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gear teeth numbers; Description of individual gears and gear trains; The inscriptions; The Antikythera mechanism as an historical document; The early history of gearing and clockwork; and The invention of complicated clockwork and the differential gear.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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