Jo Marchant

Decoding the Heavens

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

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Marchant details the 100-year quest to decode an ancient Greek computer device. This is the surprising story behind the 2,000-year-old mechanism that challenges modern assumptions about what ancient scientists knew, and the technological equipment they used to understand their world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grand Central Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 141mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9780306818615
• ISBN-10: 0306818612
• Artikelnr.: 27211781

Autorenporträt

Jo Marchant is an award-winning journalist who specializes in writing about cutting-edge science. She has worked as a staff reporter and editor for Nature and New Scientist, where she is currently a consultant. She lives in London.

Rezensionen

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