- Antikythera Mechanism: An Ancient Greek Computer?
Profile of the strange artifact that made scholars revise their estimates of ancient Greek science.
www.world-mysteries.com/sar_4.htm
- Economist.com: The Antikythera Mechanism - The Clockwork Computer
Article about how the ancient piece of clockwork shows the deep roots of modern technology.
www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1337165
- Ancient Greek Computer: The Antikythera Device
Information about the discovery and interpretation of the ancient yet sophisticated scientific instrument.
www.dreamscape.com/morgana/triton2.htm
- Antikythera Mechanism I
History of the ancient Greek astronomical calculating device with Java animations by Bill Casselman.
www.math.sunysb.edu/~tony/whatsnew/column/antikytheraI-0400/kyth1.html
- The "Computer" of Antikythera
Describes the Antikythera astronomical device, the astonishingly intricate mechanism devised in 80 B.C.
www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Kythera.htm
- Amazing Gears of History: The Antikythera Device
Includes Derek Price's 1959 Scientific American article about the ancient Greek mechanism designed for calculating the motions of stars and planets.
www.nordex.com/htmlpages/amazing.html
- Wikipedia: Antikythera Mechanism
Information about, and links to other resources for, the oldest surviving geared mechanism.
www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
- Simulation of the Antikythera Mechanism
Animations illustrating how the ancient Greek device would have worked.
etl.uom.gr/mr/Antikythera
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