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Posted: **Wed Dec 17, 2008 4:47 pm**

Found this site on a reconstruction of the Antikythera mechanism and e-mailed it to me.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/1 ... ml?hpg1=bn

A new working model of the mysterious 2,000-year-old astronomical calculator, dubbed the Antikythera Device, has been unveiled, incorporating the most recent discoveries announced two years ago by an international team of researchers.

The new model was demonstrated by its creator, former museum curator Michael Wright, who had created an earlier model based on decades of study. He demonstrates how the more complete device works in a video originally created on the New Scientist Website. (It's part of an update story by Jo Marchant, author of Decoding the Heavens, an account not only of the device itself but also the century-old scientific quest to recover its meaning.)

Includes a video.

Posted: **Wed Dec 17, 2008 5:05 pm**

Great article!

I (and the geeks) still can't figure out why Rokcet can't access the forum....got to be on his end...

Keep tryin' Rokcet, we're waitin' for ya!

Posted: **Wed Dec 17, 2008 5:47 pm**

It's probably that stinkin' Mac that he insists upon using. This is the revenge of Bill Gates!

Posted: **Thu Dec 18, 2008 10:28 am**

It's an excellent video with one glaring error-the Antikythera Device was not a computer at all.

Posted: **Thu Dec 18, 2008 10:51 am**

True Sam.
But even as a single purpose caculator it is still a pretty amazing thing.
Am I reading right that is was about 100 yrs old when the ship went down.

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