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Saturday, November 8, 2008

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If I'd seen this in a movie I'd have thought it was complete fantasy -- sort of steam-punk two millennia early. It's a two-thousand year-old (plus) astronomical calculating mechanism.

Video, paper, wiki.

[via Done With Mirrors]

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Once again, thank you. I had supposed that they had found out all that could have ever been know about the object. Astonishing is somehow inadequate to describe not only what some in antiquity were capable of but also what our own scholars and scientist are now capable of discovering from the past. You run a first rate ship.

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