Friday, 1. December 2006
Topic: SCIENCE - on December 1, 2006 at 11:30:00 AM CET
An Ancient Computer Surprises Scientists
A computer in antiquity would seem to be an anachronism, like Athena ordering takeout on her cellphone.
But a century ago, pieces of a strange mechanism with bronze gears and dials were recovered from an ancient shipwreck off the coast of Greece. Historians of science concluded that this was an instrument that calculated and illustrated astronomical information, particularly phases of the Moon and planetary motions, in the second century B.C.
Decoding the ancient Greek astronomical calculator known as the Antikythera Mechanism
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