Suppose you could travel back in time to the third century BCE, and visit Alexandria, the capital city of the Greek kingdom of Egypt. Arguably it was the most enlightened, wealthy, and powerful of all ...
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That “impossible” Greek computer is real, and its secrets keep spilling out
The Antikythera mechanism has long been treated as a one-off marvel, a relic so far ahead of its time that some doubted ...
A Greek shipwreck holds the remains of an intricate bronze machine that turns out to be the world's first computer. (This program is no longer available for streaming.) In 1900, a storm blew a ...
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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 ...
In the azure waters off the coast of Antikythera, Greece, a chance discovery in the early 20th century transformed our understanding of ancient technology. A sponge diver, exploring the remnants of a ...
March 12 (UPI) --Scientists have reconstructed a cosmological model to fit the complex arithmetic of the Antikythera Mechanism, the world's first analogue computer. One of the most sophisticated ...
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