A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World by Alexander Jones

A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World

Alexander Jones

312 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction classics history science challenging informative slow-paced
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From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Terracotta Army, ancient artifacts have long fascinated the modern world. However, the importance of some discoveries is not always immediately understood. This was the case in 1901 when sponge divers retrieved a l...

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