Is there anything new under the Sun? A review of the evening - TopicsExpress



          

Is there anything new under the Sun? A review of the evening news will tell you that Kings go to war as they have since the dawn of time, nothing new there. Computers, anything new there? Watch this short video and you will see that highly sophisticated computers have existed for thousands of years! 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. Among the treasures of the Greek National Archaeological Museum in Athens are the remains of the most complex scientific object that has been preserved from antiquity. Corroded and crumbling from 2,000 years under the sea, its dials, gear wheels and inscribed plates present the historian with a tantalizing problem. https://youtube/watch?v=UpLcnAIpVRA
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 00:50:23 +0000

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