Thanks a fool in paradise.
Posted on 03/14/2021 11:25:42 AM PDT by tbw2
Great, thanks!
Thanks, but:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3848213/posts?page=62#62
https://www.freerepublic.com/tag/antikytheramechanism/index
Thanks a fool in paradise.
Obviously they were smarter than a lot of people alive today.
Anyone who knows anything about hunting and gathering knows such an opinion is exceptionally ignorant.
Just try to live by hunting and gathering.
It takes a great deal of specialized knowledge, talent, and thinking.
Ask ANY Democrat. Any knuckle dragging Red Neck can survive in the woods. What's it take to shoot Bambi with a gun? Just point and pull a trigger. They've seen it on TV.
Democrats are too civilized to do this, when they can go to Whole Foods in their Tesla, and pay three times the going price for raw, organic food that will go bad before they get it home...
And how about that aeolipile? A steam engine or turbine!
There is little doubt in my mind that there were many brilliant minds at home in ancient Greece however I doubt that they had the mechanical capability for machining such a precision device. It may have been handed on down or inherited from some highly advanced society perhaps “Atlantean’s” which had disappeared pretty much without leaving a trace. Even today with some highly precise machinery, not to mention the knowledge required to put such an object together, it would be a challenge to come up with something of this order.
My question is—What would it be used for? Could it aid navigation at sea? It seems to have been made for a practical purpose of some sort besides when the next Olympic Games would be held.
If they invented that too, well good on them. 8>)
You Tube Video of a Dr. Jo Marchant lecture at Darwin College University of Cambridge in which she pleasantly explains the mechanism, its history, attempts to understand it, how it was reverse engineered, and classical and later references to it, its possible source, and whether it’s technology has survived.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv-zWbxm2lY
(Beautiful hair! She made it easy to listen the entire hour!)
Having the earth as the center makes sense since the user was observing from earth. Copernican astronomy is not really an advance over Ptolemaic, in a way it was a step backwards. These days it would be viewed as a change of coordinates, and to a less convenient coordinate system. Copernicus also imposed on himself the additional Aristolean constraint that motion be resolved into uniform circular motion, a constraint that only imposes unnecessary complexity.
To depict the how the sky looks to an observer on earth, an earth centered coordinate system just makes sense.
Agreed
Some interesting scholarship attesting to the distinctly terrestial, in fact Hellenistic origins of the mechanism. The mechanism was not at all unique, but may have been one of the better exemplars of the art:
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jarchae/2016/8760513/
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