Absolutely fascinating. Thanks for the link, it is amazing to see the x-ray slices of the device, and understand how amazingly complicated it was. Quoting William Biesele <bill@biesele.net>:
from Nature http://www.nature.com/nature/videoarchive/antikythera/
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Many thanks! I've known about the mechanism for decades, but this is the best explanation I've seen of it. -- Joe --- On Sun, 8/3/08, Josephine Grahn <bsi@xmission.com> wrote: From: Josephine Grahn <bsi@xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Archimedes laptop To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Date: Sunday, August 3, 2008, 4:37 PM Absolutely fascinating. Thanks for the link, it is amazing to see the x-ray slices of the device, and understand how amazingly complicated it was. Quoting William Biesele <bill@biesele.net>:
from Nature http://www.nature.com/nature/videoarchive/antikythera/
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