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Psycho Bob Says What's the Antikythera Mechanism?
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English - May 14, 2023 04:00 - 10 minutes - 7.06 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsLeisure superhero cartoons books geeky nerdy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Another installment of Psycho Bob Says is here and Bobber asks, what is the Antikythera Mechanism? For more than 100 years, scholars have struggled with defining it, determining its origin and replicating it.
After decades of study, it has been determined that the Antikythera mechanism is an Ancient Greek hand-powered mechanical model of the of the solar system. It was a mechanical computer of bronze gears that used ground-breaking technology to make astronomical predictions, by mechanizing astronomical cycles and theories.