Historians of science believe that the strange Antikythera Mechanism found in a Greek shipwreck one hundred years ago is actually a very elaborate instrument that could calculate and illustrate astronomical information, particularly phases of the Moon and planetary motions, in the second century B.C.!
Historians of technology think the instrument is technically more complex than any known device for at least a millennium afterward.
Read more here
No Comments
Be the first to leave a comment for this article ;)