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NASA/ADS Book Review: A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific …

In the spring of 1900, a group of Greek sponge divers en route to their usual diving grounds
off North Africa chanced upon the site of a shipwreck dating from about 60 BCE off the small
island of Antikythera, between Crete and the Greek mainland. For nearly a year, the divers …

Exquisite devices like this were being crafted in a Greek workshop somewhere in the
eastern Mediterranean about 2,100 years ago or more. One of them met an unfortunate
accident—for its owner, anyway, but fortunate for us since from its shattered remains we can …

The Antikythera Mechanism (National Archaeological Museum, Athens, inv. X 15087) was a
Hellenistic gearwork device for displaying astronomical and chronological functions.
Substantial but highly corroded remains of the instrument were recovered from an ancient …

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 …

This paper presents a new edition of the Back Plate Inscription (BPI) of the Antikythera
Mechanism, a series of descriptions of circumstances associated with eclipses indicated
cyclically by the inscriptions of the Mechanism's Saros Dial Scale. Our edition features …

This article concerns three archaeologically recovered circular bronze objects found at Gallo-
Roman (first century BC–fourth century AD) sites in France. Through comparisons with other
more or less contemporary objects of known function, it is argued that one of these disks …

Forse ancor più sorprendente, però, è il fatto che un esemplare di un simile cosmo portatile,
che forse Cassiodoro conosceva solo grazie alle sue letture, fu trovato poco più di un secolo
fa al largo della piccola isola greca di Anticitera, dove era andato perduto 2000 anni prima a …