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In her book Decoding the Heavens, Jo Marchant tells the story of an ancient Greek artefact called the Antikythera mechanism. It was discovered in a wreck by sponge divers in 1901, and is the most stunning scientific artefact we have from antiquity – a clo | |
Keywords : Jo Marchant, Decoding the Heavens, Antikythera, Antikythera Mechanism, Marchant, history, Ancient Greek, scientific artefact, astronomy, shipwreck, clockwork, history of science, history of astronomy, Archimedes | |
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