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Scientists solve another piece of the puzzling Antikythera mechanism – Ars Technica
“Our reconstruction fits all the evidence… gleaned from the extant remains to date.”
Enlarge/ “Exploded” view of the new computer model of the Antikythera mechanism, showing how it might have worked.
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Scientists have long struggled to solve the puzzle of the gearing system on the front of the so-called Antikythera mechanisma fragmentary ancient Greek astronomical calculator, perhaps the earliest example of a geared device. Now, an interdisciplinary team at University College London (UCL) has come up with a computational model that reveals a dazzling…
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