The inner workings of the Antikythera mechanism detailed in video: Link #inspirehttp://twitter.com/beschizza/statuses/3502387977
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Just mind boggling.
My wife and I recently visited the Galileo exhibit at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia PA.
The workmanship and apparent precision in THOSE instruments is astounding, but to think that a device of this type and complexity was possible at that time?
Wow doesn’t cover it.
That’s really interesting! I wonder what the motive power was – turning a knob wouldn’t be very practical when you want to discover the positions of the slower-turning planets.