Inquiry: Jo Marchant: DECODING THE HEAVENS: A 2,000 YEAR OLD COMPUTER AND THE CENTURY-LONG SEARCH TO DISCOVER ITS SECRETS.

In 1900, deep below the stormy seas off the coast of Greece, sponge divers discovered the wreck of an Ancient Greek ship. Among the bronze and marble statues that were recovered was an oddball collection of encrusted bronze. This small device, made of numerous interlocking finely made clockwork gears, would eventually cause scientists and archeologists to reconsider everything we thought we knew about technology and the Ancient Greeks. Tune in tonight as Inquiry talks with science journalist JO MARCHANT about her new history of the discovery of the “Antikythera mechanism: DECODING THE HEAVENS: A 2,000  YEAR OLD COMPUTER AND THE CENTURY-LONG SEARCH TO DISCOVER ITS SECRETS.