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   Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer—and the Century-long Search to Discover Its Secrets

   Jo Marchant

   The fascinating story of an obsessive quest to unravel the mystery of an ancient clue that could rewrite the history of technology – an artifact that, based on everything we know about ancient history, shouldn’t even exist. Yet, it does, and it’s humanity’s oldest analog computer.

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