More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a precision that still unsettles modern engineers. The corroded fragments of ...
The Antikythera mechanism, a first-century BC Greek device recovered from a shipwreck, is an analog computer designed to track and predict celestial movements, including the phases and orbit of the ...
An ancient Greek computer could predict eclipses with impressive accuracy. National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Viking Cruises. Major funding for NOVA is provided by the NOVA Science ...
In 1900 a storm blew a boatload of sponge divers off course and forced them to take shelter by the tiny Mediterranean island of Antikythera Diving the next day they discovered a 2000 yearold Greek ...
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