Friday, December 12th, 2008 | technology
Michael Wright, a former museum curator, has reconstructed the device known as the Antikythera mechanism. Found by divers in the 1900s, it was dated to the first century AD. In this video of the reconstructed Antikythera you can see how the Greeks would have used the device to mechanically calculate the phase of the moon and eclipses for any date.
More info at the website Decoding the Heavens .
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