Ancient Greek 'computer' came with a user guide

Fox News ^ | 28 June 2016 | Megan Gannon

[blueplum]

....With the turn of a hand crank, the ancient Greeks could track the positions of the sun and the moon, the lunar phases, and even cycles of Greek athletic competitions.

The 82 corroded metal fragments of the Antikythera mechanism contain ancient Greek text, much of which is unreadable to the naked eye. But over the past 10 years, new imaging techniques, such as 3D X-ray scanning, have revealed hidden letters and words in the text...

[blueplum]

the ship sank circa 65BC - around the time Pompey married Julius Caesar's daughter
Jones, of NYU, along with his colleagues, published their findings in Almagest

[2banana]

Made....in....china

[dp0622]

lol some graveyard humore :) at least here. 4:30am

that was a good one

when tehy say computer what exactly do they mean? circuits? drives? ram/rom?

[Cowboy Bob]

Caesar named his daughter Jones?

[ExGeeEye]

Mechanical computing machine.

[Jonty30]

Anything mechanical that can run calculations is a computer, whether it has power or not
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[This_far]

You’re neglecting your Facebook account

[saintgermaine]

I have read about this a few years ago, a rather interesting piece. It boggles the mind as to who over two thousand years ago had not only the knowledge to design it along with the skills to machine something like this and what tools were used. Maybe, just maybe there was some influence from something or someone “Out there” As it s hard to imagine that it was all “Home grown”

[njslim]

Amazing thing is that gears had to be hand cut and then
work precisely ......

[knarf]

I now see the problem with MY neglect to use periods.

[knarf]

I’ve confessed my neglect to use periods because of that.

[knarf]

[carcraft]

Read an interesting book called “ Longitude “. There was an English clock maker who finally made a clock accurate enough to locate your exact longitude. He also crafted gears for a sodden clock in a tower in the 1600’s that still works and the gears were made of wood. All the gears were hand cut. The book a great read!

[carcraft]

Should read wooden gears

[ArtDodger]

The article is decidedly skimpy on photographs.

[DariusBane]

Um i was excited to discover a hand made drinken clock

[Diogenesis]

[Jonty30]

How accurate it was would be interesting to know, I haven’t heard about that.

However, accurate or not, it is an oopart for its time for sure.

[Dr. Sivana]

Maybe, just maybe there was some influence from something or someone “Out there” As it s hard to imagine that it was all “Home grown”

It is easier for me to imagine that we know a tiny fraction of what the ancients know than the outer space visitors came down, built stuff, and disappeared, never to come back.

I read four of the Erich von Daniken books, and he is crazy. (My excuse was that I was in fourth grade, and guillible at the time). I met his nephew, and told him his uncle was crazy, and he said, "Yes, but he's rich." I didn't argue with that.

[Dr. Sivana]

“ancients know” should be “ancients knew”.