July 02, 2004
An Ancient Greek Computer.
"In 1901 divers working off the isle of Antikythera found the remains of a clocklike mechanism 2,000 years old. The mechanism now appears to have been a device for calculating the motions of stars and planets." There are also some simulations.
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The Antikythera Mechanism is amazing. Here are more links.
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Nice!!
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Absolutely wonderful! All we need now is William Gibson to write a novel about the ancient Greeks cornering the Information Technology market.
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...while egyptian agents try to sabotage it twice to prevent greeks from accidentally creating a blasphemous Clockwork God. What they don't know is that actually the Clockwork God is actually guiding them to bring his own demise out of sher frustration for being unable to solve Zeno's paradoxes.
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And meantime the Celts are sniggering behind the scenes, having perfected their Stoneware™ technology centuries ago, allowing them mastery over seafaring trade.
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Beauty link MetalMonkey
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Greek. Geek. Hmm . . .
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I once carried a "Geek Pride" sign at the Pride Parade, and a scantily clad man ran up to me happily chattering away in Greek, which was, of course, Greek to me.
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Complex clock combines calendars: Antikythera Mechanism may have timetabled ancient Olympic Games.
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Archimedes and the 2000-year-old computer. With neat-o vid.
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Famed Roman shipwreck reveals more secrets: Ancient artifacts resembling the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient bronze clockwork astronomical calculator, may rest amid the larger-than-expected Roman shipwreck that yielded the device in 1901.