The Antikythera Mechanism

In Our Time: History by BBC

Dec 12, 202450:35Society & Culture

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 2000-year-old device which transformed our understanding of astronomy in ancient Greece. In 1900 a group of sponge divers found the wreck of a ship off the coast of the Greek island of...

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