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The Antikythera Mechanism

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The Antikythera Mechanism

The Antikythera Mechanism

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The Antikythera Mechanism is a 2000-year-old, shoebox-size, bronze, mechanical gadget thought to have been an astronomical device. Sponge-divers looking at a shipwreck, off the Greek island of Antikythera, found it in 1900/1901.

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