Virtual Reconstruction of the Antikythera Mechanism (by M. Wright & M. Vicentini)

[holyparmesan]

What's amazing is that they knew enough to predict this while STILL not realizing that the earth goes around the sun.

[MsArgentana]

Isnt'it similar to the mayan calendar???

[RobertGalileo]

complimenti ai realizzatori del modello. è il primo che vedo ad essere cosi esauriente in ogni sua parte.GReat virtual mode!!!!

[Microglia1]

All this implies is that the modern Greeks, like modern Chinese, modern Arabs, modern Egyptians, have actually regressed rather than advanced. The truth is that it takes very little time for a civilization to advance brilliantly (America, Britain, Germany, Japan, South Korea, etc.)-all modern states of very recent origins. And it takes just as little time for them to devolve. The Greeks, however, have been going backward for two thousand or more years. It's sad really.

[JohnDowl]

@Microglia1

Greece has suffered terribly under the Osman Empire. They practically wiped out what was left of the ancient culture. Those who survived emigrated into the West.

[fortunanike]

@Microglia1 The Greeks are to blame for their own downfall, they were always excellent at fighting and killing each other.

[efilip]

Modern Greece NOW needs new inventions as this more than ever...but how?

[MrRobotoToo]

More beautiful than any painting.

[hozayamz]

Sweet Christ on the Cross- that was wild. You have to ask yourself- what happened to the world in 23 centuries- ? What does this say about the origins of clock-making? All you need is a steady amount of water for high- accuracy clocks. This thing is a friggin' computer. Advanced concepts all meshed together. What other computational devices were made or conceptualized? I've been eagerly awaiting this final push to understand the mechanism- what a triumph.

[bahamut99]

A testament to ancient Greece and a device that shows how advanced their school of thought was. I am amazed everytime I see it. Brilliant.

[s9srider]

is this a different version of the antikythera mechanism or the other model is the wrong one ??

[JulieB12341]

Although this is supposedly Greek the influence of the Sumerian astronomical importance of the number 12,10 and 60 can be seen in this highly sophisticated mechanism. Amazing to think how technologically advanced these ancient civilisations actually were. The Sumerian's supposedly came straight after stone age man yet their Cunieform alphabet contains over 400 characters! Yet Modern English has 26 letters making up ours!! History needs re-writing!

[KINGZACKTHEFIRST]

@JulieB12341

And the most amazing thing I think is, Gobekli Tepe, just take a look at the age of it!!!

[35FILMPROJECTION11]

I'm not convinced of the origins or the date, you can send a sample of some old thing to 12 different labs to be carbon dated and when the test are complete you can have 12 different r7esults ( 12 different dates).

[katamiaennoia]

@35FILMPROJECTION11 you mean the origin of the date of the mechanism? It was found in a shipwreck of 80BC.

[harvey101107]

so then what was it doing on an ancient roman trading ship with coins from around the world from 65-80BC?

[unapologeticmind]

@35FILMPROJECTION11 It was found buried in a Roman shipwreck with a lot of other dateable stuff, there are quotes by Cicero and others mentioning similar devices being brought as war booty from the Greeks, Archimedes wrote a now lost treatise on the construction of such devices, this device includes a dial for the Olympics which were held between 776BC-393AD, it's got ancient Greek writing inside it and writing is itself dateable as are possibly also the astronomical calculations used...

[CriticCafeteria]

@unapologeticmind

if only more machines like this could be found, the tales the machines would tell us. makes my skin tingle with excitement. perhaps they will find more.

[35FILMPROJECTION11]

I'm not convinced of the origins or the date, you can send a sample of some old thing to 12 different labs to be carbon dated and when the test are complete you can have 12 different results ( 12 different dates). This fact has been proved time and time again. My opinion somebody threw this shit in the water and it just happended to land in sold old wreck with alot of old statues onboard total coincedence.

[Tilnaor]

Another mystery of the ancients been solved. I can't find words for it...

[mnpd007]

Ingenious... the device even provides for the retrograde motion of planets as they reach opposition.

[hoplitespao]

I m very proud to be Greek

ΖΗΤΩ Η ΕΛΛΑΣ

[Icommentstupidity]

patisa katalathos to dislike :/ :D

[Majik47]

@hoplitespao I like your optimism :-)

[alchemistra]

Wish I had one, then I could throw my ephemeris away. My new one only has the years 2000 to 2050 : ( The Antikythera mechanism is for all Time : )

[TenderTrap86]

alchemistra

The Antikythera Mechanism is for all time?

[featherwinglove]

The song named for the device by BT scores this video perfectly when this video is started 6:06 into the song.

[byronchurch]

This will be an iPhone app !

[yperionas]

Απίστευτο ! Unbelievable!

[tisdue]

There used to be a "crank" attached to the device. It is now considered "lost." That was it's only power source, so to speak.

[grimmer2005]

Extremely advanced machine.... Amazing. Breathtaking.... It makes you wonder.

[shekoski]

aliens made this

[heritagekeymedia]

Philosophclese, if I'm not mistaken it was either solar power, or 'manual labour'. Rathern than a constant moving device (a la perpetuum mobile), if you wanted certain info, you'd adjust the gear... .

[Utopiah]

manually turning the crank

[Philosophclese]

What was the power source?

[greggers31]

yea there was a rod believed to of stuck out that you would manually turn with your hand which rotated the central gears thus rotating the linking gears which all moved at the pace of the sun, moon, earth, neighboring planets, etc. giving you the info you wanted on solar alignment and time.....i think, haha.

[LordAmbitious]

hand crank

you would adjust the crank to a certain date and the dials would adjust accordingly to give you astronomical info for said date.

[rufus991]

incredible

[hereticking1]

cool!

[griffindeluce]

Beautiful! Thank you...

[dailion]

Nice