High tech from Ancient Greece - Nature
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The Antikythera Mechanism, salvaged 100 years ago from an ancient shipwreck, was long known to be some sort of mechanical calendar. But modern analysis is only now revealing just how sophisticated it was.
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François Charette is at the Lehrstuhl für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Museumsinsel 1, München, D-80538, Germany
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Charette, F. High tech from Ancient Greece. Nature 444, 551–552 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/444551a
Published: 01 November 2006
Issue Date: 30 November 2006
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/444551a