Decoding the Heavens: How the Antikythera Mechanism Changed The World

ISBN-13: 9780099519768 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 336 str.

Jo Marchant

Opis

This is the story of the discovery and subsequent quest to decode the ancient Greek Antikythera mechanism, the world's first computer. Dating from around 70 BC, this artefact was able to predict eclipses and track the paths of the sun and moon through the zodiac, and may even have shown the movements of the five known planets.

Recenzje

Though it is more than 2,000 years old, the Antikythera Mechanism represents a level that our technology did not match until the 18th century, and must therefore rank as one of the greatest basic mechanical inventions of all time. I hope [this] book will rekindle interest in this artefact, which still remains under-rated Arthur C. Clarke

O autorze

Jo Marchant is a freelance journalist specialising in science and history. Until recenlty she was a consultant at New Scientist magazine. She has a PhD in medical microbiology and has been a science journalist for nine years. She spent three years of that as an editor at the Journal Nature, and her articles have also appeared in the Guardian and The Economist. She lives in Brixton, London .