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An incredible artifact...
This device, consisting of a sundial and geared mechanical calendar, is the second oldest known of its kind. The earliest known example is the #AntikytheraMechanism.
It dates around 400-600 BCE, Byzantine Empire.
This device, consisting of a sundial and geared mechanical calendar, is the second oldest known of its kind. The earliest known example is the #AntikytheraMechanism.
It dates around 400-600 BCE, Byzantine Empire.
"16 locations are inscribed in Greek on the sundial plate, translated as: Constantinople, Syene, Thebaid, Africa, Alexandria, Antioch, Rhodes, Athens, Sicily, Thessalonika, Rome, Dalmatia, Doclea, Caesarea Sratonis, Palestine, and Ascalon."
"The owner of this device would have been able to use it as a sundial to tell the time in 16 locations across the ancient world and would have been able to predict the positions of the Sun and Moon in the zodiac and the lunar phases."
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An Ancient Greek Astronomical Calculation Machine Reveals New Secrets via @uclmecheng in @sciam
"Scientists have a new understanding of the mysterious #AntikytheraMechanism that challenges assumptions about ancient technology"
scientificamerican.com/article/an-anc…
An Ancient Greek Astronomical Calculation Machine Reveals New Secrets via @uclmecheng in @sciam
"Scientists have a new understanding of the mysterious #AntikytheraMechanism that challenges assumptions about ancient technology"
scientificamerican.com/article/an-anc…
@uclmecheng @sciam "One object recovered from the site, a lump the size of a large dictionary, initially escaped notice amid more exciting finds. Months later, however, at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, the lump broke apart, revealing bronze precision gearwheels the size of coins.
@uclmecheng @sciam According to historical knowledge at the time, gears like these should not have appeared in ancient Greece, or anywhere else in the world, until many centuries after the shipwreck. The find generated huge controversy.
The lump is known as the Antikythera mechanism, an
The lump is known as the Antikythera mechanism, an
