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Saturday, March 27, 2021
CONTINUITY: Building a Digital Model of the Antikythera Mechanism
Researchers Develop a Digital Model of the 2,200-Year-Old Antikythera Mechanism, "the World’s First Computer" https://t.co/QS6Wzq1INM pic.twitter.com/xahdJPxfV7
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Here is the paper from Nature Scientific Reports, “A Model of the Cosmos in the ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism”. X-ray computed tomography of the mechanism suggests the mechanism was a mechanical orrery which computed the positions of the Sun, Moon, and five planets known in antiquity and indicates the Greeks who built it understood periodic terms in much the same way as they are used in present-day analytic planetary theories.
Posted at March 27, 2021 12:06