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Discovery of 2000-year-old 'computer' leaves scientists baffled
- ggm 3y agoIt's talking about the Antikythera mechanism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
- ColinWright 3y agoIt's a wonderful thing: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Antikythera https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Antikythera
- dsq 3y agoI remember reading about this when i was a kid. And I'm not so young anymore.
- midoridensha 3y agoWhy is this news? The Antikythera was discovered ages ago.
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- ftxbro 3y agothis is one of the antikythera mechanism news articles of all time
- albert_e 3y agoThe discovery itself is more than a century old now :) No doubt this is one of the most fascinating topics that touches science and math and astronomy and anthropology. But this being described (title) as if it is a new discovery leaves me baffled.
- readthenotes1 3y agoAt least it didn't try to claim they were breathless!
- freitzkriesler2 3y agoGuh I hate how this thing keeps popping back up. It's been rediscovered so many times. It's nifty in that the Greeks used it as a calculator of sorts to compute the locations of the stars and planets for astrological purposes. Being an astrologer in those days was mostly mathematical computations, drawing the astrology charts by hand, and then very little delineation done after wards. I've been learning koine Greek in an effort to read some of these documents out of simple fascination. IIRC, Archimedes or maybe was it Cierco talked about these devices. I always wonder if the Greeks didn't have interference from the Romans, would they have discovered a way to use steam power beyond that if a simple toy?
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