The Old and the New
Spotted this in the news this morning…
An ancient piece of clockwork shows the deep roots of modern technology
The Antikythera mechanism, as it is now known, was originally housed ina wooden box about the size of a shoebox, with dials on the outside anda complex assembly of bronze gear wheels within. X-ray photographs ofthe fragments, in which around 30 separate gears can be distinguished,led the late Derek Price, a science historian at Yale University, toconclude that the device was an astronomical computer capable ofpredicting the positions of the sun and moon in the zodiac on any givendate. A new analysis, though, suggests that the device was clevererthan Price thought, and reinforces the evidence for his theory of anancient Greek tradition of complex mechanical technology…
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