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A Portable Cosmos

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A Portable Cosmos

Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism,

Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World

ALEXANDER JONES

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Jones, Alexander, author.

Title: A portable cosmos: revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, scientific

wonder of the ancient world / Alexander Jones.

Description: New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016045108 | ISBN 9780199739349 (hardback)

Subjects: LCSH: Antikythera mechanism (Ancient calculator) |

Astronomy, Ancient—Greece. | Calendar, Greek. | Science—Greece—History—To 1500. |

Technology—Greece—History—To 1500. | Greece—Intellectual life—To 146 B.C. |

Greece—Antiquities. | Antikythera Island (Greece)—Antiquities. | BISAC: HISTORY /

Ancient / Greece.

Classification: LCC QB107 .J65 2017 | DDC 681.1/11—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016045108https://lccn.loc.gov/2016045108

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