Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer--and the Century-long Search to Discover Its Secrets by Jo Marchant, Jo Marchant
Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer--and the Century-long Search to Discover Its Secrets
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Jo Marchant, Jo Marchant
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Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer--and the Century-long Search to Discover Its Secrets

Jo Marchant, Jo Marchant

344 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

adventurous challenging informative slow-paced
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In Decoding the Heavens, Jo Marchant tells for the first time the full story of the hundred-year quest to decipher the ancient Greek computer known as the Antikythera Mechanism. Along the way she unearths a diverse cast of remarkable characters an...

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