The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

Antikythera Mechanism on display ... The historian Cicero also wrote of similar devices having been made by Archimedes in the third century BC. In any event, it had to have been built prior ...

The Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient Greek astronomical ... Developed in ancient times with applications such as Archimedes’ screw, hydraulics have evolved significantly over the centuries.