Tuesday, November 23, 2010

An Ancient Greek Computer

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 and planets by Derek J. de Solla Price.



Taken From : http://myamazingfact.blogspot.com/2008/07/ancient-greek-computer.html

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