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The heavens and their story / by Annie S. D. Maunder and E. Walter Maunder. Maunder, Annie S D [19__]. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
The heavens and their story, by Annie S.D. Maunder ... and E. Maunder, Annie S. D.-(Annie Scot Dill), [1908?]. • BOOK • 1 copy available. txt
Decoding the heavens : solving the mystery of the world's first computer /Jo Marchant. "In 1900 a group of sponge divers blown off course in the Mediterranean discovered an Ancient Greek shipwreck dating from around 70 BC. Lying unnoticed for months amongst their hard-won haul was what appeared to be a formless lump of corroded rock, which turned out to be the most stunning scientific artefact we have from antiquity. For more than a century this 'Antikythera mechanism' puzzled academics, but now, more than 2000 years after the device was lost at sea, scientists have pieced together its intricate workings. In Decoding the Heavens, Jo Marchant tells for the first time the story of the 100-year quest to understand this ancient computer. Along the way she unearths a diverse cast of remarkable characters - ranging from Archimedes to Jacques Cousteau - and explores the deep roots of modern technology not only in Ancient Greece, the Islamic world and medieval Europe."--Provided by the publisher. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 681.111(38)
The globe : how the Earth became round /James Hannam "The Globe tells the story of humanity's quest to discover the shape of the world. Philosophers in ancient Greece deduced the true shape of the Earth in the fourth century BCE; the Romans passed the knowledge to India, and from there it spread to Baghdad and Central Asia. In early medieval Europe, Christians debated the matter but long before the time of Columbus, the Catholic Church had accepted that the Earth is round and not flat. However, it wasn't until the seventeenth century that Jesuit missionaries finally convinced the Chinese that their traditional square-earth cosmology was mistaken. An accessible challenge to long-established beliefs about the history of ideas, The Globe shows how the realization that our planet is a sphere deserves to be considered the first great scientific achievement."--Provided by the publisher. 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 525.1