Antikythera Mechanism

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:21.

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URL:

http://www.giant.net.au/users/rupert/kythera/kythera.htm

Author:

Rupert Russell

Excerpt:

In 1901 divers working off the isle of Antikythera found the remains of a clocklike mechanism 2,000 years old.
The mechanism now appears to have been a device for calculating the motions of stars and planets.