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

The gears are centrally connected to nested ... If you’re interested in exploring the Antikythera Mechanism further, here is Hackaday’s own in-depth look at it.

"Here the gears are enormous ... this is the only large-scale and functional one," he warned. The Antikythera mechanism, discovered in 1901 by sponge divers, pioneers of underwater archaeology ...

Hidden behind the white face plates of this machine are racks of gears that make up a replica of one of the oldest known mechanical computers. This is a working model of the Antikythera mechanism ...

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

The Antikythera Mechanism is a mysterious ancient device used to calculate lunar cycles, planet motions, and more. Over 2,000-years-old, it was far more advanced than any other technology of its time.

The abacus, a simple counting aid, may have been invented in Babylonia (now Iraq) in the fourth century B.C. The Antikythera mechanism ... trouble carrying and its gears tend to jam.

In 1900, a storm blew a boatload of sponge divers off course and forced them to take shelter by the tiny Mediterranean island of Antikythera ... some kind of intricate mechanism.