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The Antikythera Mechanism Was Thought To Be A Celestial Measuring Device, But It Turns Out It's Still Stumping Researchers
Since its discovery off the Greek island of Antikythera in 2001, the Antikythera mechanism was long thought to be a […] ...
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How Well Did the Mysterious Antikythera Mechanism Actually Work?
Historians think the 2,000-year-old device was used to predict the positions of celestial bodies. A new digital simulation ...
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Turns Out, This Ancient Analog Computer Didn’t Function Very Well, New Study Finds
Researchers have created a computational model of the Antikythera mechanism to test how it worked. It was prone to jamming ...
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Ancient computer's gears may not have been able to turn
The 2000-year-old Antikythera mechanism may have been a kind of astronomical calculator, but researchers are unsure whether it would have worked without jamming ...
Antikythera Mechanism's intricate gears: Simulations of ancient astronomical device reveal potential jamming issues
A pair of physicists at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, in Argentina, have created a computer simulation of the famed ...