Antikythera mechanism - Wikipedia
In short, the Antikythera Mechanism was a machine designed to predict celestial phenomena according to the sophisticated astronomical theories current in its day, the sole witness to a …
Antikythera mechanism | Description, Purpose, & Facts | Britannica
2024年12月18日 · Antikythera mechanism, ancient Greek mechanical device made of bronze and used to calculate and display information about astronomical phenomena. The Antikythera …
Antikythera Mechanism - World History Encyclopedia
2023年8月2日 · The Antikythera Mechanism (also known as the Antikythera Device), dated to the late 2nd century/early 1st century BCE (roughly 205-60 BCE) is understood as the world's first …
Decoding the Antikythera Mechanism, the First Computer
One investigator dubbed it “an ancient Greek computer.” But the X-ray images were difficult to interpret, so mainstream historians ignored the artifact even as it was championed by fringe...
The Antikythera Mechanism: Unveiling Ancient Greece’s …
2024年12月13日 · Discovered in a shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera in 1901, the Antikythera Mechanism has since been hailed as the world’s first analog computer. …
Decoding an Ancient Computer: Greek Technology Tracked the …
2009年12月1日 · New explorations have revealed how the Antikythera mechanism modeled lunar motion and predicted eclipses, among other sophisticated tricks
Antikythera mechanism: Ancient celestial calculator - Live Science
2022年8月13日 · The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient shoebox-sized device that is sometimes called the world's oldest computer for its ability to perform astronomical calculations.
How the Antikythera Mechanism Worked - HowStuffWorks
2024年4月16日 · The Antikythera Mechanism is an ancient Greek analog computer used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses. It dates back to the 1st or 2nd century B.C.E. and …
A Model of the Cosmos in the ancient Greek Antikythera …
2021年3月12日 · It was a mechanical computer of bronze gears that used ground-breaking technology to make astronomical predictions, by mechanizing astronomical cycles and …
Antikythera Mechanism, The Ancient Greeks' 2,000-Year-Old Computer
2023年7月22日 · A bronze computational device that tracked astronomical phenomena with stunning precision, the ancient Greeks' Antikythera mechanism is called history's first …