Gears from the Greeks: The Antikythera Mechanism -- A Calendar Computer from Ca. 80 B.C., Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 64, Part

By Derek J. De Solla Price and Derek John de Solla Price

Book Overview

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gear teeth numbers; Description of individual gears and gear trains; The inscriptions; The Antikythera mechanism as an historical document; The early history of gearing and clockwork; and The invention of complicated clockwork and the differential gear.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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871696479
• ISBN13: 9780871696472
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 70 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.3" x 11.0"