Computer used for fortune telling
17 June 2016
Mechanism “Antikythera” described as “the first analog computer in the world” was created 2,000 years ago, and it was discovered in 1901 in a shipwreck near the Greek islands. In the past 12 years, the scientists have put together the remains of the device and with help of X-rays, revealed some of its secrets.
Earlier it was discovered that the calculator was used by Greeks in order to record the movement of planets and stars to navigate.
However, now the scientists have decoded the inscriptions on the surface of the device that revealed astrological purpose of their existence.
Professor Mike Edmunds from Cardiff University, Astrophysics Department, has declared following, at the conference in Athens: “We are not quite sure how to interpret these inscriptions, but it could hark back to suggestions that the colour of an eclipse was some sort of omen or signal”.
Mechanism “Antikythera” is a complex clock-like mechanism consisting of more than 30 bronze gear wheels, and it was designed by the Greek scientists.
