Publisher's Synopsis
What if the world's first computer wasn't built in Silicon Valley, but deep in the ancient Mediterranean, over two thousand years ago?
The First Computer: The Forgotten Genius of the Antikythera Mechanism tells the astonishing true story of a device so advanced, so mind-bendingly sophisticated, it reshapes everything we thought we knew about ancient technology. Lost beneath the Aegean Sea for centuries, this mysterious machine, a dazzling clockwork model of the cosmos, slept in silence until a group of sponge divers stumbled upon it by sheer chance. In these pages, you'll journey across shipwrecks and sunken secrets, lost libraries and vanished worlds. You'll meet the brilliant minds, ancient and modern, who dared to unlock a machine that could predict eclipses, chart the movements of the Moon and stars, and model time itself. Part detective story, part celebration of human brilliance, this book reads like a real-life thriller, reminding us that curiosity, imagination, and wonder are timeless forces. If you've ever felt the thrill of uncovering something forgotten... if you believe history still holds secrets waiting to be found... then this journey is yours to take. Because sometimes, the greatest leaps forward begin not with a blueprint or a battle, but with a whisper from the past:We dreamed. We built. We understood. Come see what they left behind.
