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The Antikythera Mechanism: The Greek Computer of Science and Reason

Skeptical Inquirer Volume 46, No. 6
November/December 2022
Evaggelos Vallianatos

In 1900, Greek sponge divers discovered a sunken ship off the coast of the island of Antikythera. The ship was full of Greek treasures, including the remnants of a computer dubbed the Antikythera Mechanism. Scientists have been studying this geared device ever since. Their consensus is that this tooth-geared bronze astronomical computer is a machine …

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