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The Antikythera Mystery — The Advanced Ancient Computer That Shouldn’t Have Ever Existed by Accomplished-Cry-217
jojojoy on April 15, 2026 6:21 pm What part of the mechanism is the diagram at 7:20 supposed to represent? For content on the mechanism that doesn’t include AI images of actual objects, the YouTube channel Clickspring is working on a reconstruction using period methods. > https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZioPDnFPNsHnyxfygxA0to4RXv4_jDU2 Not mentioned here is this Byzantine calendar that has similarities to the Antikythera mechanism. > https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co1082/byzantine-sundial-calendar
Substantial_System66 on April 15, 2026 6:31 pm It was an orrery. There are historical accounts of multiple of them in Ancient Greece. There’s no reason to believe it shouldn’t have existed.
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What part of the mechanism is the diagram at 7:20 supposed to represent?
For content on the mechanism that doesn’t include AI images of actual objects, the YouTube channel Clickspring is working on a reconstruction using period methods.
> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZioPDnFPNsHnyxfygxA0to4RXv4_jDU2
Not mentioned here is this Byzantine calendar that has similarities to the Antikythera mechanism.
> https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co1082/byzantine-sundial-calendar
Why “shouldn’t” it have existed?
It was an orrery. There are historical accounts of multiple of them in Ancient Greece. There’s no reason to believe it shouldn’t have existed.