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Naked Science - Star Clock BC

Seizoen: 2011 - Aflevering: 2 / 143 - Eerst uitgezonden: 20 januari 2011 - Episode ID: 621077

Over a century ago, sponge divers recovered an extremely complex mechanical device from a shipwreck. It was decades before they determined it's purpose, to accurately track the movement of the stars in the night sky. Dubbed the Antikythera mechanism (for the location of the shipwreck from which it came), the device is considered the world's first computer, developed by the Greeks around the 1st century B.C. Scientists continue to marvel at its intricate system of gears which rival that of the most complex Swiss watch.