Public talk: “A ‘Computer’ from Ancient Greece: The Antikythera Mechanism” Uof A April 8 2010

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Thu., Apr. 8, 2010, 3:30pm

Public talk: “A ‘Computer’ from Ancient Greece: The Antikythera Mechanism”

Co-sponsors: American Institute of Archeology. University of Alberta Science, Technology and Society Program and the Department of History and Classics.

Speaker:

James Evans (University of Puget Sound)

More than one hundred years ago, sponge divers found at the bottom of the sea near the island of Antikythera the remains of an extraordinary mechanism. It dates from between 100 BCE and 150 BCE and is now agreed to be a complex and sophisticated mechanical `computer’ designed to track and predict planetary motions, and one of the most remarkable machines of the ancient world. Professor James Evans will describe and explain the Antikythera Mechanism, and the latest findings on the device by an international group of researchers.

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