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That “impossible” Greek computer is real, and its secrets keep spilling out
The Antikythera mechanism has long been treated as a one-off marvel, a relic so far ahead of its time that some doubted ...
More than two millennia ago, Greek craftsmen built a bronze machine that could track the heavens with a precision that would not be matched for centuries. Hidden inside a corroded lump recovered from ...
The calculator, dubbed the Antikythera Mechanism, was discovered in 1901 at the site of a shipwreck off a Greek Island with the same name. The breakthrough in determining the mechanism's true purpose, ...
In its November 2023 issue, the Website Grunge assumed that certain science questions “won’t be answered in the next 50 years.” One of those questions was about the Antikythera Mechanism. The writer, ...
On July 26, 2023, I went to Las Vegas to give a talk on the Antikythera Mechanism, the Greek computer of genius of the second century BCE. A friend drove me to the Ontario, California airport. I took ...
A Greek shipwreck holds the remains of an intricate bronze machine that turns out to be the world's first computer. (This program is no longer available for streaming.) In 1900, a storm blew a ...
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