Antikythera: the surviving trace of a lost precision-mechanics industry
In the spring of 1900, sponge divers raised green corroded bronze fragments from a shipwreck off Antikythera. The fragments turned out to be a geared astronomical computer, the surviving product of a precision-mechanics industry that once existed and was lost.
Read in Vietnamese →In the spring of 1900, sponge divers found a shipwreck off the island of Antikythera, on the sea route between Crete and the Peloponnese. The recovery campaign ran into 1901. Among statues, pottery, and cargo from a Hellenistic-era ship, the divers raised green corroded bronze fragments that looked like rubble. Today, those 82 pieces are identified as the remains of a device built in the Hellenistic world in the second or early first century BCE. The device holds about thirty bronze gears, plus dials, axles, graduated scales, pointers, and inscriptions.
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