AbstractThe Greek astronomic calculator, discovered in the depth of the sea in a naval wreckage of the 1st century B.C. in front of the island of Antikythera, is the most amazing among the archaeological discoveries of last century. The mechanism immediately appeared like a device out of its time. After years of study this devise is still provoking a discussion between scientists and archaeologists because of the complexity and the modernity of the scientific knowledge the work presupposes. Its epicyclical gearings show the high level of the scientific culture reached in that period of history.The knowledge of the planetary motion, necessary to the design of the epicyclic gearing of the Calculator of Antikythera, presumes that ancient Greek scientists knew the planetary motion of the celestial bodies and had already achieved the same results that have been attributed to scientists 19 centuries later. The scientific value of this gear mechanism is indisputable because the inventor of the Calculator of Antikythera had the knowledge that was “re-discovered” centuries later as the heliocentric theory proposed by Niccolò Copernicus in 1543 (De revolutionibus orbium coelestium), the universal gravitation law formulated by Isaac Newton in 1687 (Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica), and the kinematic study of the epicyclical gearings published by Robert Willis in 1841 (Principles of mechanism).


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    Titel :

    Antikythera Calculator advances modern science of 19 centuries


    Beteiligte:

    Erschienen in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 46 , 4 ; 552-556


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2009-03-31


    Format / Umfang :

    5 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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