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LEADER: 01823cam a22003857a 4500
001 2008939733
003 DLC
005 20120215104924.0
008 081016r20092008mauaf b 001 0 eng d
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020 $a9780306817427
020 $a030681742X
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn301710838
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042 $alccopycat
043 $ae-gr---
050 00 $aQB107$b.M37 2009
082 04 $a681.1110938$222
100 1 $aMarchant, Josephine.
245 10 $aDecoding the heavens :$ba 2,000-year-old computer-- and the century-long search to discover its secrets /$cJo Marchant.
250 $a1st Da Capo Press ed.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bDa Capo Press,$c2009.
300 $a328 p., [8] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c22 cm.
500 $aOriginally published: London : William Heinemann, 2008.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 307-318) and index.
505 0 $aI see dead people -- Impossible find -- Treasures of war -- Rewriting history -- Heroic reconstruction -- Moon in a box -- Mechanic's workshop -- New boys -- Stunning idea -- Old man of Syracuse.
520 $aThe story of the discovery and study of what came to be known as the, "Antikythera mechanism".
650 0 $aAntikythera mechanism (Ancient calculator)
650 0 $aAstronomical clocks$zGreece$xHistory.
651 0 $aGreece$xAntiquities.
650 7 $aClocks and watches$zGreece$xHistory.$2sears
650 7 $aAstronomy$xHistory.$2sears
651 7 $aGreece$xAntiquities.$2sears
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1204/2008939733-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1204/2008939733-d.html