Gears from the Greeks: The Antikythera Mechanism, a Calendar Computer from Ca 80 B.c. (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society) (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society)
by Derek J. de Solla Price
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Contents: Discovery of the Antikythera shipwreck; Discovery of and research on the mechanism fragments, 1902-73; The casing, general construction, and dial work; The arrangement of the plates and components of the mechanism; The door plates and orientation and use of the mechanism; The accuracy of gear teeth numbers; Description of individual gears and gear trains; The inscriptions; The Antikythera mechanism as an historical document; The early history of gearing and clockwork; and The show more invention of complicated clockwork and the differential gear. App.: Composition of the metal fragments (contrib. by Earle Caley and Cyril Smith); and Tech. note on radiography of fragments. Illus. show lessTags
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- 681.111 — Applied science & technology Manufacture for specific uses Precision instruments and other devices Instruments for measuring time, counting and calculating machines and instruments Instruments for measuring time Ancient and primitive instruments
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