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More Antikythera's from same shipwreck ?

 
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the fabulous astronomy computer, that even forecast eclipses (possibly the real reason for them), has been found to have more stuff hidden in its hold...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/01/03/antikythera-shipwreck-survey/1804353/
 
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Source: Wikipedia

The Antikythera mechanism "apparently used 37 gear wheels, a technology reinvented a millennium later, to create a lunar calendar and predict the motion of the planets"

Pretty cool thing.
 
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