"More than a hundred years ago an extraordinary mechanism was found by
sponge divers at the bottom of the sea near the island of Antikythera.
It astonished the whole international community of experts on the
ancient world. Was it an astrolabe? Was it an orrery or an astronomical
clock? Or something else?
For decades, scientific investigation failed to yield much light and
relied more on imagination than the facts. However research over the
last half century has begun to reveal its secrets. The machine dates
from around the end of the 2nd century B.C. and is the most
sophisticated mechanism known from the ancient world. Nothing as complex
is known for the next thousand years. The Antikythera Mechanism is now
understood to be dedicated to astronomical phenomena and operates as a
complex mechanical "computer" which tracks the cycles of the Solar System."
http://www.antikythera-mechanism.gr/?lang=en
No comments:
Post a Comment