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Book Review: Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer -- and the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets by Jo Marchant

Apr 8, 2009 1:53 PM

Excerpt ...details the discovery of and century-long effort to solve the mystery of an ancient mechanical device known as the Antikythera mechanism. The device gained its name because it came f...

Ancient Greek Computer - Antikythera mechanism

Apr 6, 2009 1:40 PM

Antikythera mechanism

Dan Agin: Book Review: Tackling the Mystery of a 2,000-Year-Old Computer

Feb 14, 2009 8:21 PM

Excerpt ...elaborate device, a system of 30 cogwheels laid on cogwheels, and after much study the consensus decision was that the Antikythera Mechanism, as it came to be called, was in fact an ...

Brian Transeau - The Antikythera Mechanism

Jan 29, 2009 9:24 AM

A truly amazing song that dazzles the mind and challenges our deepest imagination. This piece is a mixture of Ambient and Trance. Very Translucent, yet subliminal. The sound personifies all faces o...

Antikythera mechanism working model

Jan 19, 2009 11:36 AM

da jonewscientist Curator Michael Wright shows off his model of the Antikythera mechanism. The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient Greek clockwork machine found in a shipwreck, that has taken more ...

Antikythera Mechanism Mystery Unraveled

Dec 23, 2008 5:37 AM

Excerpt One of the great science stories of 2008 was the unraveling of the mystery of the Antikythera Mechanism, first discovered by sponge divers in 1901 off the Greek island of Antikythera in...

Working Model of Antikythera Mechanism

Dec 19, 2008 6:05 AM

Excerpt ...assemblage of 37 interlocking dials crafted with the precision and complexity of a 19th-century Swiss clock, the Antikythera mechanism was used for modeling and predicting the moveme...

Antikythera mechanism

Dec 15, 2008 7:17 PM

This clip shows a 2000 year old Antikythera mechanism that has been restored and now works.

2000-year-old computer recreated

Dec 12, 2008 4:41 AM

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026861.600 A working model of an ancient computer was recently recreated in London.

Nature Video: Antikythera Mechanism - Part 2

Dec 11, 2008 9:59 AM

New interpretations of the Antikythera Mechanism reveal that it could be used to predict eclipses, and that it had a dial recording the dates of the ancient Olympiads. The 2,000-year-old box of int...

Nature Video: Antikythera Mechanism - Part 1

Dec 11, 2008 9:06 AM

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Dec 4, 2008 11:31 AM

Its little project i decided to make. This video will be about hm.. 8 mins long once finished. Soo stay tuned ;P I wasnt trying to make a story here. But it still seems on some parts like there is ...

Antikythera mechanism working model.mov

Nov 26, 2008 12:37 AM

Curator Michael Wright shows off his model of the Antikythera mechanism. The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient Greek clockwork machine found in a shipwreck, that has taken more than a century to ...

The Antikythera Mechanism

Oct 15, 2008 3:29 PM

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Antikythera Mechanism helped Greeks set Olympic schedule

Jul 30, 2008 9:30 PM

Excerpt ...since its as an astronomical device," says Reviel Netz of Stanford University. Most likely, the Antikythera Mechanism followed Archimedes' design, Netz says. The Metonic calendar i...