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To: Socratic
Casselman also sez, "Several kinds of evidence point incontrovertibly to around 80 B.C. for the date of the shipwreck." One of those bits of evidence is the accuracy of the mechanism. It's possible that the reason more of these haven't been found is that they ceased to be useful, and wound up getting used for other things. And of course, the ships could have gone down.
15 posted on 08/14/2004 5:08:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Unlike some people, I have a profile. Okay, maybe it's a little large...)
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To: SunkenCiv; LiteKeeper
There is another possibility which to me seems quite likely.

That the device was made much later than the date of the shipwreck, that it was being transported by sea over the wreck and due to a second wreck or some act of vandalism, caused to sink onto the older wreck, where it was eventually found.

IIRC, devices with this level of sophistication were being developed as early as the late renaissance.
18 posted on 08/14/2004 9:37:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin (Who was Madame Binh's messenger boy?)
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