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Antikythera Mechanism

The Antikythera Mechanism: "In 1901 divers working off the isle of Antikythera found the remains of a clocklike mechanism 2,000 years old. The mechanism now appears to have been a device for calculating the motions of stars and planets."

Posted by John on August 27, 1999 8:46 AM | | archeology

 

 

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