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An Ancient Greek Computer

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

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 201 Issue 6This article was originally published with the title “An Ancient Greek Computer” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 201 No. 6 (), p. 60
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0659-60