The apparent mystery that surrounded per years to the machine of Antikitera, one of most famous “oopart” (“out of place device”) of history was solved, and turned out to be a human creation totally corresponding to Greek of century II a.C. The scientists Mike Edmunds and Tony Freeth, of the University of Cardiff, directed the equipment who consider finally to have unravelled the operation of the Mechanism of Antikitera, an astronomical, similar calculator to a clock.

The rest of a broken box of wood and bronze lodging more than 30 gears, were found almost 100 years ago by divers that explored a shipwreck in front of the island of Antikitera. The scientists have been trying to reconstruct it since then. The new investigation suggests much more is falsified than anyone it had supposed previously.

The detailed work realised on the gears sample that the mechanism was able to follow the astronomical movements with remarkable precision. The calculator could reproduce the movements of the Moon and the Sun through the Zodiac, predict eclipses, and even, recreate the irregular orbit of the moon. The equipment esteem that also could have predicted the positions of some planets or even of all the knowing in the time.

The results suggest it Greek technology was much more outpost that the considered thing previously. No other civilization is not known that has created something so complicated during at least the following thousand years.

Professor Edmunds stresses the fascination that the machine has exerted on the modern scientists. “This device simply is extraordinary. He is something unique in his sort. The design is wonderful, its astronomical calculations are of an admirable precision. The way in which the mechanics was designed leaves overwhelmed. Whoever it has done this it did, it extremely well”.

The equipment was integrated by investigators of the University of Cardiff, the National Archaeological Museum of Athens and the Universities of Athens and Tesalónica.

The mechanism consists of 80 pieces and it is kept in conditions controlled with end taken care of in Athens, not being able to be touched. To recreate its operation was a difficult process, and involved astronomers, mathematicians, experts in computation, analysts of writing and experts in conservation.

The investigators now hope to create a model by computer of the operation of the machine, and with time, to develop a functional retort. Still why the Greeks used the mechanism old, or how he is not clearly extended was that technology.

“The inevitable question Arises from what would be doing more at that time. As for his historical value and to its character unique, I must consider this mechanism like more valuable that Pretty Lisa”, declares Edmunds.

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