A portable cosmos: revealing the Antikythera mechanism, scientific wonder of the ancient world
"The Antikythera Mechanism, now 82 small fragments of corroded bronze, was an ancient Greek machine simulating the cosmos as the Greeks understood it. Reflecting the most recent researches, A Portable Cosmos presents it as a gateway to Greek astronomy and technology and their place in Greco-Rom...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "The Antikythera Mechanism, now 82 small fragments of corroded bronze, was an ancient Greek machine simulating the cosmos as the Greeks understood it. Reflecting the most recent researches, A Portable Cosmos presents it as a gateway to Greek astronomy and technology and their place in Greco-Roman society and thought"... "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 lump of corroded bronze from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea near the Greek island of Antikythera. Little did the divers know they had found the oldest known analog computer in the world, an astonishing device that once simulated the motions of the stars and planets as they were understood by ancient Greek astronomers. Its remains now consist of 82 fragments, many of them containing gears and plates engraved with Greek words, that scientists and scholars have pieced back together through painstaking inspection and deduction, aided by radiographic tools and surface imaging. More than a century after its discovery, many of the secrets locked in this mysterious device can now be revealed. In addition to chronicling the unlikely discovery of the Antikythera Mechanism, author Alexander Jones takes readers through a discussion of how the device worked, how and for what purpose it was created, and why it was on a ship that wrecked off the Greek coast around 60 BC. What the Mechanism has uncovered about Greco-Roman astronomy and scientific technology, and their place in Greek society, is truly amazing. The mechanical know-how that it embodied was more advanced than anything the Greeks were previously thought capable of, but the most recent research has revealed that its displays were designed so that an educated layman could understand the behavior of astronomical phenomena, and how intertwined they were with one's natural and social environment. It was at once a masterpiece of machinery as well as one of the first portable teaching devices. |
| Beschreibung: | xiv, 288 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln Illustrationen, Karten 25 cm |
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/ JONES, ALEXANDERYYEAUTHOR
: 2017
TABLE OF CONTENTS / INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
CHAPTER 1. THE WRECK AND THE DISCOVERY
CHAPTER 2. THE INVESTIGATIONS
CHAPTER 3. LOOKING AT THE MECHANISM
CHAPTER 4. CALENDARS AND GAMES
CHAPTER 5. STARS, SUN, AND MOON
CHAPTER 6. ECLIPSES
CHAPTER 7. THE WANDERERS
CHAPTER 8. HIDDEN WORKINGS
CHAPTER 9. AFTERWORD: THE MEANING OF THE MECHANISM
DIESES SCHRIFTSTUECK WURDE MASCHINELL ERZEUGT.
CONTENTS
PREFACE IX
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
XIII
1.
THE
WRECK
AND
THE
DISCOVERY
1
2.
THE
INVESTIGATIONS
16
3.
LOOKING
AT
THE
MECHANISM
47
4.
CALENDARS
AND
GAMES
63
5.
STARS, SUN,
AND
MOON
95
6.
ECLIPSES
128
7.
THE
WANDERERS
161
8.
HIDDEN WORKINGS
200
9.
AFTERWORD:
THE
MEANING
OF
THE
MECHANISM
233
GLOSSARY
247
NOTES
253
BIBLIOGRAPHY
269
INDEX
281
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| spelling | Jones, Alexander 1960- Verfasser (DE-588)136112129 aut A portable cosmos revealing the Antikythera mechanism, scientific wonder of the ancient world Alexander Jones New York, NY Oxford University Press [2017] © 2017 xiv, 288 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln Illustrationen, Karten 25 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "The Antikythera Mechanism, now 82 small fragments of corroded bronze, was an ancient Greek machine simulating the cosmos as the Greeks understood it. Reflecting the most recent researches, A Portable Cosmos presents it as a gateway to Greek astronomy and technology and their place in Greco-Roman society and thought"... "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 lump of corroded bronze from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea near the Greek island of Antikythera. Little did the divers know they had found the oldest known analog computer in the world, an astonishing device that once simulated the motions of the stars and planets as they were understood by ancient Greek astronomers. Its remains now consist of 82 fragments, many of them containing gears and plates engraved with Greek words, that scientists and scholars have pieced back together through painstaking inspection and deduction, aided by radiographic tools and surface imaging. More than a century after its discovery, many of the secrets locked in this mysterious device can now be revealed. In addition to chronicling the unlikely discovery of the Antikythera Mechanism, author Alexander Jones takes readers through a discussion of how the device worked, how and for what purpose it was created, and why it was on a ship that wrecked off the Greek coast around 60 BC. What the Mechanism has uncovered about Greco-Roman astronomy and scientific technology, and their place in Greek society, is truly amazing. The mechanical know-how that it embodied was more advanced than anything the Greeks were previously thought capable of, but the most recent research has revealed that its displays were designed so that an educated layman could understand the behavior of astronomical phenomena, and how intertwined they were with one's natural and social environment. It was at once a masterpiece of machinery as well as one of the first portable teaching devices. Mechanismus von Antikythera (DE-588)7738934-7 gnd rswk-swf HISTORY / Ancient / Greece bisacsh Funde Geschichte Naturwissenschaft Antikythera mechanism (Ancient calculator) Astronomy, Ancient Greece Calendar, Greek Science Greece History To 1500 Technology Greece History To 1500 HISTORY / Ancient / Greece Griechenland Greece Intellectual life To 146 B.C. Greece Antiquities Antikythēra Island (Greece) Antiquities Aigila - Antikythera [57 B6] (DE-2581)TH000009159 gbd Technologie der Antike (DE-2581)TH000007731 gbd Mechanismus von Antikythera (DE-588)7738934-7 u DE-604 LoC Fremddatenuebernahme application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=029432170&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis Digitalisierung Deutsches Museum application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=029432170&sequence=000003&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| spellingShingle | Jones, Alexander 1960- A portable cosmos revealing the Antikythera mechanism, scientific wonder of the ancient world Mechanismus von Antikythera (DE-588)7738934-7 gnd HISTORY / Ancient / Greece bisacsh Funde Geschichte Naturwissenschaft Antikythera mechanism (Ancient calculator) Astronomy, Ancient Greece Calendar, Greek Science Greece History To 1500 Technology Greece History To 1500 HISTORY / Ancient / Greece |
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| title | A portable cosmos revealing the Antikythera mechanism, scientific wonder of the ancient world |
| title_auth | A portable cosmos revealing the Antikythera mechanism, scientific wonder of the ancient world |
| title_exact_search | A portable cosmos revealing the Antikythera mechanism, scientific wonder of the ancient world |
| title_full | A portable cosmos revealing the Antikythera mechanism, scientific wonder of the ancient world Alexander Jones |
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| title_full_unstemmed | A portable cosmos revealing the Antikythera mechanism, scientific wonder of the ancient world Alexander Jones |
| title_short | A portable cosmos |
| title_sort | a portable cosmos revealing the antikythera mechanism scientific wonder of the ancient world |
| title_sub | revealing the Antikythera mechanism, scientific wonder of the ancient world |
| topic | Mechanismus von Antikythera (DE-588)7738934-7 gnd HISTORY / Ancient / Greece bisacsh Funde Geschichte Naturwissenschaft Antikythera mechanism (Ancient calculator) Astronomy, Ancient Greece Calendar, Greek Science Greece History To 1500 Technology Greece History To 1500 HISTORY / Ancient / Greece |
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