The artifact and the receiver

The artifact and the receiver

Tuesday, July 28, 2026. The Antikythera mechanism, recovered from a shipwreck in 1901, holds the Greek cycles in bronze: Metonic, Saros, Callippic, Exeligmos, the Egyptian calendar, the zodiac, and the lunar anomaly a model could move. The Voyager Golden Record,...
The Machine That Held the Cycles

The Machine That Held the Cycles

Saturday, July 25, 2026. The Antikythera mechanism came out of an ancient shipwreck in 1901 as a corroded mass of bronze fragments. Roughly thirty gears survive; the largest is about thirteen centimeters across. The original, now in the National Archaeological Museum...