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

Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer--And the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets

Jo Marchant

328 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history science technology adventurous 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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