The Antikythera Mechanism: The History and Mystery of the Ancient World's Most Famous Astronomical Device

*Includes pictures*Chronicles the discovery and theories over the mechanism's origins and capabilities*Includes footnotes, online resources and a bibliography for further reading.*Includes a table of contents"It multiplies, divides and subtracts, but you can't program it." - Michael EdmundsDiscovering ancient shipwrecks hasn’t been a novelty for thousands of years, but when artifacts were salvaged from a Roman shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera in 1900, the discovery of one set off one of the great mysteries of antiquity.When sponge divers investigated the shipwreck, they found the kind of items often associated with such discoveries, including marble statues, pottery, jewelry, and coins, but they also discovered a strange object, the likes of which nobody had ever seen before. Initially assumed to be pieces of rock, it turned out that the item, soon to be dubbed the Antikythera mechanism, consisted of dozens of pieces, many of which had gears. In fact, while scholars quickl