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Post by hi224 on Jul 14, 2021 0:00:06 GMT
instrument is believed to have been designed and constructed by Greek scientists and has been variously dated to about 87 BC,[17] or between 150 and 100 BC,[4] or to 205 BC,[18][19] or to within a generation before the shipwreck, which has been dated to approximately 70–60 BC.[20][21] The knowledge of this technology was lost at some point in antiquity. Clockwork later appeared in the medieval Byzantine and Islamic worlds, but works with similar complexity did not appear again until the development of mechanical astronomical clocks in Europe in the fourteenth century.[22]
All known fragments of the Antikythera mechanism are now kept at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, along with a number of artistic reconstructions and replicas[23][24] to demonstrate how it may have looked and worked.[25]
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Post by MCDemuth on Jul 14, 2021 0:42:26 GMT
It's one of those OOPArts (Out Of Place Artifacts), that according to our history books, shouldn't exist, and yet it does...
There's nothing like it, before the wreck, and nothing like it for centuries, after it...
Where did it come from?
And it is so highly complex, one has to ask, where is the progression of such "Technology"...
It's LIKE...
...Mankind never having an airplane, and then someone suddenly builds the first jet airplane that could break the sound barrier, and no one built airplanes ever again, and then it took centuries for the Wright Brothers to build the Wright Flyer, a propeller driven aircraft...
So, where's the first "Wright Flyer" that EVENTUALLY led to the creation of the Antikythera Mechanism?
We should be seeing examples of the "Wright Flyer", the "Biplane", the "P-51 Mustang", and the "first jet airplane" throughout early human history... and they're not there, or haven't been found yet.
It's just incredible that some one built the device, and that we got lucky enough to find it.
It should have been in some tomb, not a shipwreck.
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Post by politicidal on Jul 16, 2021 20:38:54 GMT
Such an incredible discovery. Imagine what other kinds of ancient technology they possessed which we may never discover.
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Post by mecano04 on Jul 16, 2021 22:57:24 GMT
That's an interesting instrument, not only from a technological perspective but in showing that our ancestors weren't all that "under-developed".
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Post by Sarge on Jul 27, 2021 19:41:16 GMT
Covers what is known about the device. I believe they concluded it was more of a showpiece that did a lot of things, but none of them well enough to be an improvement over other tech of the day.
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