Abstract The Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest known mechanical calculator. It was
constructed around the second century bce and lost in a shipwreck very close to the small …

This is the first English-language monograph on Marcus Manilius, a Roman poet of the first
century AD, whose Astronomica is our earliest extant comprehensive treatment of astrology …

Previous research on the Antikythera Mechanism established a highly complex ancient
Greek geared mechanism with front and back output dials,,,,,,. The upper back dial is a 19 …

Time in Antiquity offers a detailed survey of the science of time and its measurement in the
Greek and Roman worlds, including Babylon and Egypt where many of the first advances …

What did the Romans know about their world? Quite a lot, as Daryn Lehoux makes clear in
this fascinating and much-needed contribution to the history and philosophy of ancient …

Abstract The Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient Greek astronomical calculator, has
challenged researchers since its discovery in 1901. Now split into 82 fragments, only a third …

Among the many instruments devised by students of mathematical sciences in ancient
Greece, the monochord provides one of the best opportunities to examine the …

Rather than being an isolated, primitive body of knowledge the Jewish calendar tradition of
364 days constituted an integral part of the astronomical science of the ancient world. This …

The Roman statesman, orator, and author Marcus Tullius Cicero is the embodiment of a
classic: his works have been read continuously from antiquity to the present, his style is …

Many literary critics seem to think that an hypothesis about obscure and remote questions of
history can be refuted by a simple demand for the production of more evidence than in fact …