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The Antikythera Mechanism
A 2,000-year-old bronze device found in a shipwreck turned out to be more mechanically advanced than anything else built for the next 1,000 years.
Recovered from a Roman-era shipwreck in 1901, the Antikythera mechanism is an ancient Greek geared device used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses — a level of sophistication historians didn't think existed until centuries later.
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Quick facts
- →It contains at least 30 precisely cut bronze gears, housed in a wooden case with inscribed instructions.
- →It could track the sun and moon's positions, predict eclipses, and account for the moon's irregular orbital speed.
- →No comparable device from antiquity has ever been found.
- →It was nearly overlooked among more visually impressive statues recovered from the same shipwreck.
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Antikythera Mechanism (document)
Ancient Greek geared astronomical calculator recovered from a 1st-century BC shipwreck.
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Valerios Stais (person)
Museum director who in 1902 first identified a gear embedded in the recovered fragment.
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