High tech from Ancient Greece

François Charette ()
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François Charette: François Charette is at the Lehrstuhl für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Museumsinsel 1

Nature, 2006, vol. 444, issue 7119, 551-552

Abstract: The Antikythera Mechanism, salvaged 100 years ago from an ancient shipwreck, was long known to be some sort of mechanical calendar. But modern analysis is only now revealing just how sophisticated it was.

Date: 2006
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