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[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Clickspring has an amazing series where he builds a replica of this using techniques from the era. He makes the drill, vise, files, etc from raw materials, its really interesting.

In the process he actually discovered a key detail about what it's purpose was and helped write a paper about it.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

I've been posting those to c/videos, Clickspring is fantastic

[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I will always support antikytheraposting

whoever designed that thing was the most autistic human being to ever exist past present or future

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah OK I'm kind of constitutionally opposed to watching YouTubers but that was pretty interesting tfpu

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

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[–] wheresmysurplusvalue@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Very cool feat of technology and engineering for the time period. Though, can it really be classified as a computer? It's more like a "calculator" but doesn't in principle do anything more than a lookup table can do. The lookup table is basically encoded in the gear ratios. Maybe I'm being too uncharitable. But this is like calling a watch a computer that calculates seconds since midnight.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

It's definitely not a general purpose computer but it is a computer and does a lot more than a watch. You could input a date and it would calculate the phase of the moon, positions of all the planets then known about, whether there was an eclipse, and which of the panhellenic games it would be time for.

Also, the error this video mentions is very likely a fault of the early 2000s reconstruction making a bad assumption and using a solar calendar rather than the lunar calendar the original probably used, according to new research by Clickspring et al

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

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