Gears from the Greeks by Derek De Solla Price

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Gears from the Greeks by Derek De Solla Price

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Part of Transactions Of The American Philosophical Society series

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Gears from the Greeks by Derek De Solla Price

Contents: Discovery of the Antikythera shipwreck; Discovery of and research on the mechanism fragments, 1902-73; The casing, general construction, and dial work; The arrangement of the plates and components of the mechanism; The door plates and orientation and use of the mechanism; The accuracy of gear teeth numbers; Description of individual gears and gear trains; The inscriptions; The Antikythera mechanism as an historical document; The early history of gearing and clockwork; and The invention of complicated clockwork and the differential gear. App.: Composition of the metal fragments (contrib. by Earle Caley and Cyril Smith); and Tech. note on radiography of fragments. Illus.

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ISBN 13 9780871696472
ISBN 10 0871696479
Title Gears from the Greeks
Author Derek De Solla Price
Series Transactions Of The American Philosophical Society
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher American Philosophical Society Press
Year published 1974-01-01
Number of pages 70
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