Results 1 to 9 of 9

Thread: Antikythera Mechanism

Hybrid View

Previous Post Previous Post   Next Post Next Post
  1. #1
    Community Leader Facebook Connected Ascension's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2008
    Location
    St. Charles, Missouri, United States
    Posts
    8,392

    Post

    It's a broken and rusted device they found on the bottom of the Mediterranean, they think it's some sort of calendar/navigation device. I saw a show on it on History channel a few years ago.
    If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
    -J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)


    My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps

  2. #2
    Community Leader RPMiller's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2006
    Location
    Watching you from in here
    Posts
    3,226

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Ascension View Post
    It's a broken and rusted device they found on the bottom of the Mediterranean, they think it's some sort of calendar/navigation device. I saw a show on it on History channel a few years ago.
    This article actually talked about the most recent discoveries that it is actually a computer used to track dates and other things, but it focused mainly on the discovery that one of its functions was to track the Olympiad timing. It is turning out to be a marvel of engineering and they are starting to rethink just how advanced Greece was circa 100-150 BC which is when this device was created.

    I really wish I would have downloaded that video when I had a chance.
    Bill Stickers is innocent! It isn't Bill's fault that he was hanging out in the wrong place.

    Please make an effort to tag all threads. This will greatly enhance the usability of the forums.



  3. #3

    Post

    Looks like someone reconstructed the device, and it works:
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/bl...first-computer
    Bryan Ray, visual effects artist
    http://www.bryanray.name

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •