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Published online 30 July 2008 | Nature 454, 561 (2008) | doi:10.1038/454561a
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Antikythera Mechanism may have timetabled ancient Olympic Games.
The Antikythera Mechanism, a clockwork device made in Greece around 150–100
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Very interesting! Greek history and mythology are a big interest of mine. I was just curious if this device has been mentioned in any greek historical, scientific, or even social/cultural texts?
sorry just to clarify, I meant any Ancient greek historical, scientific, or even social/cultural texts?
Let me first appreciate the scientists who digged out the mistery behind this surpising mechanism..Especially when there is just days left for Beiging Olympics ,it is a piece of discovery thats praise worthy...Again an insight to the mysterious Greek Skills ..Making me dig deeper into it...there shall be lots of extraordinary things twined up within this,awaiting to know more about this through Nature..
There is a very interesting web application that lets you interactively relight and change the surface materials of the Antikythera so that you can see more detail in the photo http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/ptm/antikythera_mechanism/index.html
It's astounding the methods used by modern scientists to discover details of the past of humanity, and not only the revealing of the very past. But the discovered mechanism is really incredible for the established date of its fabrication. Great matter and video.
I have been watching the research on this artifact for the last few years and would like to commend the great work all have done in this task. My field of research is Ancient tools for navigation and I see a connection with this tool to many I have researched. When the final translation of this tool is completed I feel you will understand how the ancients used the moon,s position in it's 18.6 year cycle to determine longitude location. Simular tools were used in North America (Liahona), South America (Coba Dial), New Gunie (New Guine Dial). This method is also present in an ancient Load Stone compass I am researching from Spain found in America. Serious researchers may contact me at (wmsmithrock1@yahoo.com)