25 Nov
2012
25 Nov
'12
11:25 a.m.
From: "Adam P. Goucher" <apgoucher@gmx.com> And, in a guiltless act of self-promotion, you may want to explore my Wolfram Demonstration of the Antikythera Mechanism:
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/AntikytheraMechanism/
You can view both the exterior and the internal mechanism, up to and including the entire known arrangement of gears. Detailed information about the demonstration and how it was created is on cp4space:
http://cp4space.wordpress.com/2012/09/19/antikythera-mechanism/
--how accurate are the predictions from this mechanism vs reality? Could it have been useful for navigation (it was found in an ancient shipwreck)?