Antikythera Mechanism - Replica in scale 3:1
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The Antikythera Mechanism was a technologically amazing analog computer, the first computer in human history. It was constructed between 200-150 B.C. and was used to calculate the exact position of the Sun and the Moon. It calculated the phases of the Moon, predicted eclipses and indicated the date of the panhellenic games. It had front and back doors, with astronomical, geographical and technological inscriptions covering much of the exterior of the Mechanism.
In 1900, the corroded fragments of the Antikythera Mechanism were found accidentally in a shipwreck, at the coast of the Antikythera island. For more than 100 years researchers were trying to unlock the secrets of the Mechanism, in order to find out the usage of this amazing ancient device.
Nowadays, a team of researchers based in Thessaloniki built the most recent and accurate replica of the Mechanism that has ever been built!
(https://www.antimech.com)
The model in this video is an exact copy of this replica but 3 times bigger. Moreover, the plates and the gears were made from plexiglass, in order to be visible the interior of the Mechanism.
This replica is exhibited in the National Observatory of Athens.
(http://www.noa.gr/index.php?lang=en)
The Antikythera Mechanism was a technologically amazing analog computer, the first computer in human history. It was constructed between 200-150 B.C. and was used to calculate the exact position of the Sun and the Moon. It calculated the phases of the Moon, predicted eclipses and indicated the date of the panhellenic games. It had front and back doors, with astronomical, geographical and technological inscriptions covering much of the exterior of the Mechanism.
In 1900, the corroded fragments of the Antikythera Mechanism were found accidentally in a shipwreck, at the coast of the Antikythera island. For more than 100 years researchers were trying to unlock the secrets of the Mechanism, in order to find out the usage of this amazing ancient device.
Nowadays, a team of researchers based in Thessaloniki built the most recent and accurate replica of the Mechanism that has ever been built!
(https://www.antimech.com)
The model in this video is an exact copy of this replica but 3 times bigger. Moreover, the plates and the gears were made from plexiglass, in order to be visible the interior of the Mechanism.
This replica is exhibited in the National Observatory of Athens.
(http://www.noa.gr/index.php?lang=en)
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