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Replica S<\/span><\/strong>tatue of Antikythera mechanism. <\/span><\/strong>H<\/strong>andmade of alabaster,and painted in special corrosion patina.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The Antikythera mechanism<\/b>\u00a0is an ancient Greek hand-powered\u00a0orrery, described as the first\u00a0analogue computer.<\/a> The oldest known example of such a device used to predict astronomical<\/a>\u00a0positions and\u00a0eclipses\u00a0for\u00a0calendar\u00a0and\u00a0astrolog<\/a>ical<\/a> purposes decades in advance.<\/sup><\/sup><\/sup>\u00a0It could also be used to track the four-year cycle of athletic games which was similar to an\u00a0Olympiad<\/a>, the cycle of the\u00a0ancient Olympic Games<\/a>.<\/sup><\/sup><\/sup><\/p>\n

This artefact was retrieved from the sea in 1901,\u00a0 from a shipwreck\u00a0off the coast of the Greek island\u00a0Antikythera.<\/sup><\/sup>\u00a0The instrument is believed to have been designed and constructed by\u00a0Greek scientists .IT has been\u00a0 dated to about 87 BC,<\/sup> or between 150 and 100 BC..<\/sup><\/sup><\/p>\n

The knowledge of this technology was lost at some point in\u00a0antiquity.\u00a0 Similar technological works later appeared in the medieval Byzantine\u00a0and\u00a0Islamic worlds.\u00a0 \u00a0But works with similar complexity did not appear again until the development of mechanical astronomical clocks\u00a0in Europe in the fourteenth century.<\/sup>\u00a0All known fragments of the Antikythera mechanism are now kept at the\u00a0National Archaeological Museum in Athens.\u00a0 Along with a number of artistic reconstructions and replicas <\/sup>of the mechanism to demonstrate how it may have looked and worked.<\/sup><\/p>\n

ORIGIN OF THE MECHANISM<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The Antikythera mechanism is generally referred to as the first known analogue computer.<\/sup>\u00a0The quality and complexity of the mechanism’s manufacture suggests that it must have had undiscovered predecessors made during the\u00a0Hellenistic period.\u00a0 Its construction relied on theories of astronomy and mathematics developed by Greek astronomers .\u00a0 It is estimated to have been built in the late second century BC<\/sup>\u00a0or the early first century BC.<\/sup><\/p>\n

The ship<\/a> carrying the device also contained vases in the\u00a0Rhodian style.\u00a0 That is leading to a hypothesis that it was constructed at an academy founded by Stoic\u00a0philosopher\u00a0Posidonius\u00a0on that Greek island.<\/sup> Rhodes was a busy trading port in antiquity and a centre of astronomy and mechanical engineering.\u00a0 Home to astronomer Hipparchus, who was active from about 140 BC to 120 BC. The mechanism uses Hipparchus’ theory for the motion of the Moon.\u00a0 That suggests the possibility that he may have designed it or at least worked on it.<\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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