[PDF][PDF] " Like Opening a Pyramid and Finding an Atomic Bomb": Derek de Solla Price and the Antikythera Mechanism.
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In 1958, the Society awarded Derek John de Solla Price (1922–1983) Grant No. 2379, to the
amount of $460, for a proposal entitled “Examination of the Fragments of the 'Antikythera
Machine.'” 2 Price's modest request was to fund his return flight from Copenhagen to Athens
and 10–12 days' living expenses in Athens. 3 The Society's grant made possible, in the short
term, the first substantial breakthroughs in the study of a curious but hitherto rather obscure
archaeologically recovered artifact. In the longer term, it set in motion successive trains of …
amount of $460, for a proposal entitled “Examination of the Fragments of the 'Antikythera
Machine.'” 2 Price's modest request was to fund his return flight from Copenhagen to Athens
and 10–12 days' living expenses in Athens. 3 The Society's grant made possible, in the short
term, the first substantial breakthroughs in the study of a curious but hitherto rather obscure
archaeologically recovered artifact. In the longer term, it set in motion successive trains of …
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