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On 14/10/14 22:42, Paul Sutton wrote:
Is not a computer as we know it - it doesnât make decisions, It does show the motions of the planet and predict eclipses so you could call it an analogue computer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism is a good read. The mechanism is mind blowingly good and believed being made by Archimedes (now there's a case for nominative determinism!)-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This seems interesting http://www.history.com/news/divers-excavate-greek-shipwreck-dubbed-ancient-titanic To quote the relevant part of the article recovered the fragments of an ancient mechanical device that would be dubbed the âAntikythera Mechanism.â Until the late 1950s, it lay in the National Museum in Athens, mistakenly identified as an astrolabe, a primitive instrument used to tell time and make astronomical measurements. But thanks to scholarly research, it is now thought to be an ancient âcomputer,â built to calculate the movements of stars and planets in order to predict astronomical events such as eclipses. So what exactly is this device ? Imagine where we would be if someone had seen the potential 2000 years ago, Paul- -- http://www.zleap.net@zleap14 diaspora : zleap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlQ9mLkACgkQaggq1k2FJq21qwCfUuvyd/ZKKFQV7XUBsmFxYXFP DmkAn1fb9wzCJjMqlsaJqHdwYtxOfOEa =3R3L -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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