Scientists Unravel Mystery of Ancient Machine
By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS, AP
12/2/2006
Known as the Antikythera Mechanism - from the island off which the Roman ship sank - the assemblage of cogs and wheels looks like the innards of a very badly maintained grandfather clock. But the first clockwork devices appeared more than a thousand years later in Western Europe.
"It was a calendar of the moon and sun, it predicted the possibility of eclipses, it showed the position of the sun and moon in the zodiac, the phase of the moon, and we believe also it may have shown the position of some of the planets, possibly just Venus and Mercury," he said.
Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstarguy@aol.com), Olathe, KS
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