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

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gear teeth numbers; Description of individual gears and gear trains; The inscriptions; The Antikythera mechanism as an historical document; The early history of gearing and clockwork; and The invention of complicated clockwork and the differential gear.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

Product Details
ISBN: 9780871696472
ISBN-10: 0871696479
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Publication Date: January 1st, 1974
Pages: 70
Language: English
Series: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society