Portable Cosmos
Portable Cosmos From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Terracotta Army, ancient artifacts have long fascinated the modern world. This was the case in 1901 when sponge divers retrieved a lump of corroded…
Specifikacia Portable Cosmos
Portable Cosmos
From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Terracotta Army, ancient artifacts have long fascinated the modern world. This was the case in 1901 when sponge divers retrieved a lump of corroded bronze from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea near the Greek island of Antikythera. However, the importance of some discoveries is not always immediately understood.
Its remains now consist of 82 fragments, many of them containing gears and plates engraved with Greek words, that scientists and scholars have pieced back together through painstaking inspection and deduction, aided by radiographic tools and surface imaging. Little did the divers know they had found the oldest known analog computer in the world, an astonishing device that once simulated the motions of the stars and planets as they were understood by ancient Greek astronomers. More than a century after its discovery,