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Mysteries of computer from 65BC are solved « Isegoria 2008

Scientists have uncovered the workings of an ancient computer called the Antikythera Mechanism.

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After a closer examination of a surviving marvel of ancient Greek technology known as the Antikythera Mechanism, scientists have found that the device not only predicted solar eclipses but also organized the calendar in the four-year cycles of the Olympiad, forerunner of the modern Olympic Games.

Discovering How Greeks Computed in 100 B.C. Jan 2008

Some researchers believe the machine, known as the Antikythera Mechanism, may have been among other treasure looted from Rhodes that was en route to Rome for a celebration staged by Julius Caesar.

Archive 2008-03-01 Jan 2008

After a closer examination of a surviving marvel of ancient Greek technology known as the Antikythera Mechanism, scientists have found that the device not only predicted solar eclipses but also organized the calendar in the four-year cycles of the Olympiad, forerunner of the modern Olympic Games.

Archive 2008-07-01 Jan 2008

The remains of a 2,000 year old analogue computer known as the Antikythera mechanism were discovered in Greece in 1902.

Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

One device, called the Antikythera mechanism - named for the Greek island where it was discovered by sponge divers - appears to be a handheld, non-electronic calculator to plot the movements of the planets and other astronomical events used by navigators.

SFGate: Top News Stories tabate@sfchronicle.com (Tom Abate 2011

The structure - called Antikythera, after the island on which it was found - "has all these layers of intricately meshed gears, and the point of it was to mimic the movements of the planets and the stars and the sun," says

NPR Topics: News 2010

For example, records suggest that only a handful of Antikythera devices were ever created.

June « 2010 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2010

For example, records suggest that only a handful of Antikythera devices were ever created.

Technology, Society, and Civilization « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2010