Book review: REALLY thorough explanation of the history and inner workings of the Antikythera
Book review: REALLY thorough explanation of the history and inner workings of the Antikythera mechanism! For anyone who needs a refresher, the Antikythera mechanism is “an ancient Greek analogue computer used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses for calendar and astrological purposes decades in advance … retrieved from the sea in 1901 … among wreckage retrieved from a wreck off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera” [Wikipedia]. I’m a real ancient tech buff, and it was too detailed even for me, so I just flipped through like a magazine, perusing the graphics and reading the parts that caught my eye. Cool stuff! Highly recommend for academic research or just to add to your computer science and/or history libraries. -- source link
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