[bunster]

“Decoding the Heavens” Jo Marchant — one of the best books I’ve ever read on the discovery in about 1900 of the ship off the coast of Antikythera and the treasures from circa 1 bc aboard — including the “antikythera mechanism” purported to be the first computer. Absolutely amazing.

[BenLurkin]

I’ll check it out.

[ABN 505]

Excellent series on utube about the Antikythera mechanism and also a series about rebuilding a copy by a superb machinist.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML4tw_UzqZE&list=PLZioPDnFPNsHnyxfygxA0to4RXv4_jDU2