Antikythera Mechanism
Wednesday July 30, 2008
Researchers, who have been studying the Antikythera Mechanism, a 2000-year-old, shoebox-size, bronze, mechanical gadget that has been called a mechanical computer or calculator, have just released their findings. The Antikythera Mechanism had various purposes, but one of them may be the timely one of calculating the date for the ancient Olympics. The New York Times has released an article Workings of Ancient ‘Computer’ Deciphered.
Archaeology Guide K. Kris Hirst has put together a photo essay about the device that explains what the researchers have been doing, provides details on its appearance, and looks at the various calendars the device is thought to have calculated. See her Antikythera Mechanism.
Photo from Tet_Sy at Flickr.
Comments
In my opion the so called antikythera mechanism is a device that could infact keep track of the existance of true time,it would do this by using the positions of all the known planets over a period of 52 weeks 364 days it would incporate an extra longitude that was known to its creator,who aplied lodgic to his known understanding of mathamatics ,he also like i have would have
found a time frame from the elisping moon and understood the rule in the construction of the calender of which would run in conjunction
with the true minites of his clock once this was achieved it would begin to eradicate the extra 333 mins they falsly give ,i have myself used many instroments likewise in the quest for the search on truth in time ?