2000 Year Old Astronomical Computer has Scientists Perplexed

Interesting article on Astromart

www.astromart.com/news/news.asp?news_id=606

Regards,

A further article on it here from Nature:

www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7119/full/444534a.html

Regards,

Michael.

Your timing is somethign else ... I spent all morning at the National Archaeological Museum (Athens) and here is the proof: www.perseus.gr/Astro-Greek-Archae-Astr-Antikythera.htm ... enjoy.

Michael.

Your timing is somethign else ... I spent all morning at the National Archaeological Museum (Athens) and here is the proof: www.perseus.gr/Astro-Greek-Archae-Astr-Antikythera.htm ... enjoy.

great shots anthony. but that cannot be a computer there is no microsoft logo on it . it just goes to show how silly humans are as a species. each generation thinks they are the cleverest and the most modern but someone has probably come up with the idea before. it just goes to show you what could be lying at the bottom of the med awaiting to be discovered. if there was one of these devices maybe there are more of them.

An amazing piece of engineering, how could something like it have been made and lost, there must have been more the one of them !

An amazing piece of engineering, how could something like it have been made and lost, there must have been more the one of them !

It was lost because it was on a ship that sunk!

The tech was lost pobably because the Romans then became the dominant power. A group much less scientifically progressive than the Greeks. They may have used these objects but never saw a reason to develop more small cog toys.

Another item that is much simpler but may have similarly profound implications for the evolution of technology is the Baghdad Battery. The object is basically a jar with a copper tube and an iron rod (ot the other way around, can't remember...). If you fill this up with vinegar, you get a battery that produces about 1V. One possible use is electroplating. Whether thats what the object actually is or not we cant say, but its just possible that it was a battery.

Make you wonder what other technology we've had to re-invent.