Antikythera mechanism
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title:
Antikythera mechanism
text:
The Antikythera mechanism is an Ancient Greek hand-powered orrery, described as the oldest known example of an "analogue computer" used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in advance. It could also be used to track the four-year cycle of athletic games similar to an Olympiad, the cycle of the ancient Olympic Games. This artefact was among wreckage retrieved from a shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera in 1901. In 1902, it was identified by archaeologist Valer
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encyclopedia
description:
Ancient analogue astronomical computer
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
date created:
2002-09-23T06:59:07Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T02:47:56Z
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