[HN Gopher] Antikythera Mechanism: Evidence of a Lunar Calendar ... ___________________________________________________________________ Antikythera Mechanism: Evidence of a Lunar Calendar (2020) Author : mmastrac Score : 18 points Date : 2022-10-08 15:55 UTC (3 days ago) (HTM) web link (bhi.co.uk) (TXT) w3m dump (bhi.co.uk) | antognini wrote: | Huh, by coincidence the episode this month of a podcast I do on | the history of astronomy happened to be on the Antikythera | Mechanism so it has been top of mind for me. If you want to hear | a little about the history of the discovery of this device the | episode's page with a transcript is here: | https://songofurania.com/episode/022 | | It's a fascinating device --- it's the earliest known geared | mechanism in Europe. It seems to tantalizingly suggest that | engineering in the late Hellenistic Era was much more advanced | than we had previously suspected. It's just a shame that so much | from that period has been lost. | mystickphoenix wrote: | Obligatory link for Clickspring on youtube who is machining the | mechanism from scans: | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZioPDnFPNsHnyxfygxA0... | iamtedd wrote: | He is also a co-author of the posted paper. | AdamJacobMuller wrote: | You beat me by 1 minute :) | | Love these kind of meditative machining/building channels. | jshprentz wrote: | Previous HN discussion in 2020: | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25412576 | AdamJacobMuller wrote: | If you're curious on what the antikythera mechanism is in a more | practical sense, I can't recommend enough the ongoing clickspring | project where they build one. | | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZioPDnFPNsHnyxfygxA0... | | Really fascinating and meditative video series, excellently | filmed. Can not recommend it enough! | Accujack wrote: | He's the first author listed on this paper, too. | | It's the reason he took a hiatus from filming, because he | discovered this and had to write it into a paper rather than | just talking about it on Youtube. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-10-11 23:00 UTC)