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

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.61377/ehc.41794

Keywords:

Antikythera Mechanism, ancient astronomy, ancient science

Abstract

Reseña Jones, Alexander: A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World. Oxford University Press. New York, USA. 288 págs.

References

Freeth, T., Jones, A., Steele, J. M., & Bitsakis, Y. (2008). Calendars with Olympiad display and eclipse prediction on the Antikythera Mechanism. Nature, 454(7204), 614-617. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature07130

Freeth, T., Bitsakis, Y., Moussas, X., Seiradakis, J. H., Tselikas, A., Mangou, H., Zafeiropoulou, M., Hadland, R., Bate, D., Ramsey, A., Allen, M., Crawley, A., Hockley, P., Malzbender, T., Gelb, D., Ambrisco, W., & Edmunds, M. G. (2006). Decoding the ancient Greek astronomical calculator known as the Antikythera Mechanism. Nature, 444(7119), 587-591. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature05357

de Solla Price, D. J. (1974). Gears from the Greeks: The Antikythera Mechanism, a Calendar Computer from ca. 80 B.C. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, n.s. 64.7. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. https://doi.org/10.2307/1006146

Downloads

Published

2023-11-09

How to Cite

Review of «A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World» by Alexander Jones. (2023). Epistemología E Historia De La Ciencia, 7(2), 45-52. https://doi.org/10.61377/ehc.41794