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This evidence that the Antikythera mechanism was not unique adds support to the idea that there was an ancient Greek tradition of complex mechanical technology that was later, at least in part, transmitted to the Byzantine and Islamic worlds, where mechanical devices which were complex, albeit simpler than the Antikythera mechanism, were built ...
Michael T. Wright, FSA (Born: 16 June, 1948) is a former curator of mechanical engineering at the Science Museum and later at Imperial College in London, England. [1] He is known for his analysis of the original fragments of the Antikythera mechanism and for the reconstruction of this Ancient Greek brass mechanism.
Antikythera (/ ˌ æ n t ɪ k ɪ ˈ θ ɪər ə / AN-tik-ih-THEER-ə, US also / ˌ æ n t aɪ k ɪ ˈ-/ AN-ty-kih-; [2] [3] Modern Greek: Αντικύθηρα, romanized: Antikýthira, IPA: [andiˈciθira]) [note 1] or Anticythera, known in antiquity as Aigilia (Αἰγιλία), is a Greek island lying on the edge of the Aegean Sea, between ...
The Antikythera mechanism, dating between 150 and 100 BC, was an early analog computer. The Antikythera mechanism , a type of device used to determine the positions of heavenly bodies known as an orrery , was described as an early mechanical analog computer by British physicist, information scientist, and historian of science Derek J. de Solla ...
Epicyclic gearing was used in the Antikythera Mechanism, circa 80 BC, to adjust the displayed position of the Moon for the ellipticity of its orbit, and even for its orbital apsidal precession. Two facing gears were rotated around slightly different centers; one drove the other, not with meshed teeth but with a pin inserted into a slot on the ...
Antikythera mechanism, main fragment, c. 205 to 87 BC Carlo G Croce, reconstruction of Dondi's Astrarium, originally built between 1348 and 1364 in Padua. The Antikythera mechanism, discovered in 1901 in a wreck off the Greek island of Antikythera in the Mediterranean Sea, exhibited the diurnal motions of the Sun, Moon, and the five planets known to the ancient Greeks.
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