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

Virtual model of the (still) mysterious Antikythera Mechanism by Mogi Vicentini based on the theoretical and mechanical model by Michael Wright.

Find Mogi Vicentini at http://www.mogi-vice.com and Michael Wright at www.mtwright.co.uk (coming soon).

Uploaded to YouTube with permission of M. Vicentini for this Heritage Key blogpost: http://heritage-key.com/blogs/ann/dig...

Copyright: Mogi Vicentini and Michael Wright.

• Category

  Science & Technology

[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... .

[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.

[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.

[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???

[fortunanike]

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

[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.

[efilip]

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

[MrRobotoToo]

More beautiful than any painting.

[CriticCafeteria]

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.