Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought?
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Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought?
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 Quote:The finding supports the idea, scientists said, that the mechanism’s eclipse prediction strategy was not based on Greek trigonometry, which did not exist at the time, but on Babylonian arithmetical methods borrowed by the Greeks. But the Greeks had overrun the Persian empire well over a century before 205. They would have had access to whatever they found there and Alexander's treatment of the Persians was lenient. Cooperation would have been expected. |
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