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Researchers at UCL have solved a major piece of the puzzle that makes up the ancient Greek astronomical calculator known as the Antikythera Mechanism, a hand-powered mechanical device that was used to predict astronomical events. Cosmos Display at the front of the Antikythera Mechanism, showing the positions of the Sun, Moon and five planets as well as the phase of the Moon and the nodes of the Moon [Credit: ©2020 Tony Freeth] Known to many as the world's first analogue computer, the…

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Antikythera Mechanism, an astronomical calculator, raised from a shipwreck in 1901, is older than thought.  In the 1970s it was estimated to date from 87 B.C. Scientists now believe the forms of the Greek letters in the inscriptions date it to 150 to 100 B.C. Its eclipse patterns fit Babylonian records, supporting that the mechanism’s eclipse prediction strategy was not based on Greek trigonometry, which did not exist at the time, but on Babylonian arithmetical methods borrowed by the Greeks. Coral Castle Florida, Antikythera Mechanism, Rusty James, Coral Castle, Ancient Technology, Greek History, Ancient Civilization, Mystery Of History, Old Computers

A riddle for the ages may be a small step closer to a solution: Who made the famed Antikythera Mechanism, the astronomical calculator that was raised from an ancient shipwreck near Crete in 1901? Detail of the Olympiad dial showing the four-year cycle of Panhellenic games. In Year one are the Isthmian games in Corinth and the Olympic games in Olympia; Year two, the Nemean games in Nemea and the Naian games in Dodona; Year three, the Isthmian games in Corinth and the Pithian games in Delphi…

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