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What is the Antikythera mechanism?

What is the Antikythera mechanism?

by Graham Hoyland | Dec 2, 2019 | Books, Walking Through Spring

The Antikythera mechanism is the oldest analogue computer in the world, made around 80 B.C. by the Ancient Greeks who knew why we have seasons such as Spring.   It was found in a Roman shipwreck near the island of Antikythera (literally “opposite Kythera”-...

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