Ancient astronomy: Mechanical inspiration

Jo Marchant

Nature, 2010, vol. 468, issue 7323, 496-498

Abstract: The ancient Greeks' vision of a geometrical Universe seemed to come out of nowhere. Could their ideas have come from the internal gearing of an ancient mechanism?

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1038/468496a

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