Is revising on the subway. The Antikythera Mechanism What are you now, besides a mystery raised from a wreck: a lump of greenish gears, frozen by corrosion. Brass? Maybe a clock? Doomsday device? It appears you might have functioned as a calendar: cranking out dates for the Olympic Games, decreeing war should cease, giving Pindar winners to praise. A few, familiar names we can make out, wheels within more wheels: glyphs representing sun and moon, and time divided into day and night. One feels you served some larger purpose, like a rhyme. But even with X-Rays, we cannot tell ourselves, with confidence, what happened when your crank was turned. What cities rose, who fell at the last hurdle? Science is uncertain.
Posted on: Mon, 05 May 2014 13:34:54 +0000
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