Saturday, December 20, 2008
Ancient Greek Computer?
In 1901 divers working off the isle of Antikythera found the remains of a clocklike mechanism 2,000 years old. The mechanism now appears to have been a device for calculating the motions of stars and planets by Derek J. de Solla Price.
I saw a great documentary about this, and how it was x-rayed and replicated.
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