High tech from Ancient Greece
The Antikythera Mechanism, salvaged 100 years ago from an ancient shipwreck, was long known to be some sort of mechanical calendar. But modern analysis is only now revealing just how sophisticated it was.
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Nature (London) 2006-11, Vol.444 (7119), p.551-552 |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The Antikythera Mechanism, salvaged 100 years ago from an ancient shipwreck, was long known to be some sort of mechanical calendar. But modern analysis is only now revealing just how sophisticated it was. |
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| ISSN: | 0028-0836 1476-4687 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/444551a |