Decoding the Heavens - How the Antikythera Mechanism Changed The World

Informationen zum Autor Jo Marchant is Opinion Editor at New Scientist magazine. She has a PhD in medical microbiology and has been a science journalist for nine years. She spent three years of that as an editor at the journal Nature , and her articles have also appeared in the Guardian and The Economist . She lives with her boyfriend in Brixton, London. Klappentext In 1900 a group of sponge divers blown off course in the Mediterranean discovered an Ancient Greek shipwreck dating from around 70 BC. Zusammenfassung In 1900 a group of sponge divers blown off course in the Mediterranean discovered an Ancient Greek shipwreck dating from around 70 BC.

Product details

• Authors: Jo Marchant, Josephine Marchant, Marchant Jo
• Publisher: Windmill Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.08.2009
• EAN: 9780099519768
• ISBN: 978-0-09-951976-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); History, HISTORY / General, SCIENCE / Time, Time (chronology), time systems and standards