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Default The Antikythera Mechanism - rebuilt 100 BCE analog computer

Lewis Hartswick wrote:
pyotr filipivich wrote:

I remember a sci-fi story where they find an astronaut, trapped by
cave-in on the moon. Only - nobody is missing. This that and the
other, he's been there for - oh, 50,000 years. So they get the high
tech scanners out and "read" his notebook - using the table of
constants (which any engineer/astronauts manual would have) as the
Rosetta stone.



Is this it?

Inherit_the_Stars by James P. Hogan


http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...erit_the_Stars


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