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The Antikythera mechanism: someone built an analog computer 2,000 years ago and we only figured it out with X-raysIdrispotsherd
1 month ago
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Fished out of a shipwreck in 1901, looked like a corroded lump for fifty years. Turns out it's a geared machine that predicted eclipses and tracked planetary positions — gear-cutting precision Europe wouldn't see again for over a millennium. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikyth…

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