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lhall wrote:

dreamerblue wrote:

Is it just me, or is there a weird bit at the end of Ariadne's post?

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People have also built :

(Even now I'm astonished by the level of craftsmanship that goes into creating a device like that...it just blows my mind to think of it having happened two thousand or more years ago.)

Is there an image or something after that partial line that I'm missing?

Heh, yes... my message was:

There are several replications and interpretations of the mechanical movement, based on the '59 research and now adapted to allow for the more modern discoveries: http://www.etl.uom.gr/mr/index.php?mypage=antikythera_ani_new

People have also built functioning versions: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/NAMA_Machine_d'Anticyth%C3%A8re_5.jpg

(Even now I'm astonished by the level of craftsmanship that goes into creating a device like that...it just blows my mind to think of it having happened two thousand or more years ago.)

And there are also renderings of the Olympiad dial: http://www.antikythera-mechanism.gr/system/files/images/Olympiad_Dial.jpg

Oohh... just as I was about to write an email in, it got fixed! Yay Smile

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