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Episode 109 – The Antikythera Mechanism with Prof Xenophon Moussas
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45 minutes 21 seconds
2 years ago
Episode 109 – The Antikythera Mechanism with Prof Xenophon Moussas
I first came across the Antikythera Mechanism just over a decade ago. It is still the most incredible artefact from history. It is as out of place in our time as William Shakespeare using an Iphone or Vasco De Gama travelling in a speedboat.
The Antikythera Mechanism is a complex mechanical (clockwork) device that can determine the position of the planets and phases of the Moon and predict when solar and lunar eclipses will occur. Constructed about two thousand years ago, it was discovered in 1901.
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Weekly audio podcast by and predominantly amateur astronomers.
