Name: The Maker's Mistakes
SKU: 69130120
Price: 18.43 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Adam Deen
ISBN: 9798177577227

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Physical Book

Publisher

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Author

Adam Deen

Language

English

Pages

ISBN13

9798177577227

The Maker's Mistakes

Adam Deen (Author) · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · Physical Book

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Synopsis "The Maker's Mistakes"

Two thousand years ago, someone built a machine that could track the sky. Recovered from an ancient shipwreck as a corroded mass of bronze, the Antikythera Mechanism would eventually be recognized as one of the most astonishing technological objects to survive from the ancient world. We know much about what the machine was designed to do. But a different question has remained largely hidden in the bronze: How was it actually made? In The Maker's Mistakes, Adam Deen follows an unusual trail of evidence-not the perfection of the mechanism, but its imperfections. A ring of slightly misplaced holes. Gears whose teeth refuse to sit exactly where they should. Tiny errors made by hands more than two thousand years ago. Those errors may contain information that the original maker never intended to leave behind. Using modern measurements, simulations, historical evidence, and a series of tests designed to challenge his own conclusions, Deen investigates whether the mistakes preserved in the mechanism can reveal something about the lost workshop that produced it. The investigation does not lead to a miraculous lost technology or an easy solution. Instead, it becomes a scientific detective story in which promising ideas fail, evidence contradicts expectations, and a smaller but more defensible discovery emerges. The Maker's Mistakes is a story about ancient engineering, modern science, and a simple idea with surprising power: Perfection erases its own history. Error preserves it.