youtube.com — Curator Michael Wright shows off his model of the Antikythera mechanism. The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient Greek clockwork machine found in a shipwreck, that has taken more than a century to decipher. Wright's handmade reconstruction is the first to include all the known features of this complex device.
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thenativeraverDec 12, 2008
Ooh look a computer!<a class="user" href="http://www.europastar.com/europastar/photos/05_2005/magazine405/gall_longines405.jpg">http://www.europastar.com/europastar/photos/05_200 ...</a>
napierttDec 12, 2008
Same for me.
zip000Dec 12, 2008
Yeah, I know no one particularly cares that I occasionally wear a sweater vest. But I'm quite sure that no one wants to hear you rant about it too.@johnnysaucepn:I have often suspected the second one. It may also be why she keeps making me eat brownies.
kd1sDec 13, 2008
Screw em'. I've already sent a letter to my bishop stating that I no longer wish to be affiliated and to strike my name from all records of the church. Never got a response.
jomarchant26Dec 13, 2008
Only scraps of the text are readable but they seem to be operating instructions, explaining what all the dials did. The legible fragments include things like "...the spiral divided into 235 sections..." or "...two pointers, whose ends carry...". There are also references to the planets, eclipses, and to "little sphere" and "golden little sphere" which could mean the Sun and Moon pointers on the front zodiac dial. Researchers are still reading it though. If you want to know more, I've just written a book about it, called Decoding the Heavens.
digital56kDec 14, 2008
Thanks!
yuravianDec 20, 2008
Thenativeraver:Do you know what an eclipse is? I don't see an eclipse-meter on that watch. Or a zodiac-meter. It doesn't track planets either. Horrible comprehension indeed.