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ANTIKYTHERA UPDATE: - The finding supports the idea, scientists said, that the mechanism’s eclipse prediction strategy was not based on Greek trigonometry, which did not exist at the time, but on Babylonian arithmetical methods borrowed by the Greeks. - “‘If we were all taking bets about where it was made, I think I would bet what most people would bet, in Rhodes,’ said Alexander Jones, a specialist in the history of ancient mathematical sciences at New York University.” nytimes/2014/11/25/science/solving-the-riddles-of-an-early-astronomical-calculator.html?_r=0 (Thx, Sean Lone Bison, for the find.)
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 14:19:47 +0000

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