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

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 ...

Craig Duguid of Durham University, said, "This new mechanism has wide reaching implications for the survival of short period planets and particularly hot Jupiters. "It opens a new avenue of tidal ...

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.

in the fourth century B.C. The Antikythera mechanism, used for registering and predicting the motion of the stars and planets, is dated to the first century B.C. It was discovered off the coast of ...