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

Turns out, these are no ordinary fragments, but remarkable time relics disintegrated from the body of a crumbling artifact that scientists decoded as the “Antikythera Mechanism,” which a Greek diver ...

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

such as those used in the construction of the Antikythera Mechanism, which [Chris] has been rebuilding for the past years, using only period-correct tools. He’s learned a lot about the mechanism ...

The seven hands of the mechanism pertained to the five main planets which were seen from ... of the eclipse predictor as retained by the Antikythera mechanism, scientists came to the conclusions ...

And yet, they built. Granted, not every artifact was as complex as the Antikythera mechanism, but still, this ancient astronomical computer exists, and must have come from someone’s workshop.