Researchers reconstructed a Greek astronomical calculator known as the 'world's first computer.'
, only a piece of the hand-powered machine was recovered, with two-thirds of it never having been found.One of the fragments of the Antikythera mechanism found off the Greek island of the same name. Source:
The researchers believe the mechanism may have displayed the movement of the five known planets on concentric rings. As the machine assumed the Earth was at the center of the universe, their paths were much more difficult to reproduce with gearwheels. "This is a key theoretical advance on how the Cosmos was constructed in the Mechanism," Dr. Adam Wojcik explained in the UCL press release.
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