Monday 19 November 2018
I wondered if this little film might be of interest to people as our next meeting is about science and is in Sicily. It is a virtual reconstruction of a device found in the water south of Greece and believed to be the world's first Analogue computer. Historians date it to about 205BC and think it may be a device described by Cicero and originally made by the Greek mathematician and philosopher Archimedes in Syracuse. It is called the Antikythera Mechanism. Children may be surprised to know that such machines were possible over 2000 years ago.
