{"title":"The Antikythera mechanism: who was its creator and what was its use and purpose?","authors":"Antonios D. Pinotsis","doi":"10.1080/10556790601136925","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We first give an account of the discovery of the Antikythera treasure, which was found by Symian sponge divers in November 1900. Among other finds was the Antikythera mechanism, which is the ancient mechanism of the highest level of sophistication among the mechanisms that have been found until now and is considered as the highest technology mechanism in antiquity. We have included in our account information from recent literature. We also give a description of this mechanism and its function, use and purpose. Finally, we present some scientific arguments in favour of our suggestion that the creator of the Antikythera mechanism was Posidonius of Rhodes.","PeriodicalId":52135,"journal":{"name":"Astronomical and Astrophysical Transactions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2007-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10556790601136925","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Astronomical and Astrophysical Transactions","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10556790601136925","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Physics and Astronomy","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We first give an account of the discovery of the Antikythera treasure, which was found by Symian sponge divers in November 1900. Among other finds was the Antikythera mechanism, which is the ancient mechanism of the highest level of sophistication among the mechanisms that have been found until now and is considered as the highest technology mechanism in antiquity. We have included in our account information from recent literature. We also give a description of this mechanism and its function, use and purpose. Finally, we present some scientific arguments in favour of our suggestion that the creator of the Antikythera mechanism was Posidonius of Rhodes.
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Astronomical and Astrophysical Transactions (AApTr) journal is being published jointly by the Euro-Asian Astronomical Society and Cambridge Scientific Publishers, The journal provides a forum for the rapid publication of material from all modern and classical fields of astronomy and astrophysics, as well as material concerned with astronomical instrumentation and related fundamental sciences. It includes both theoretical and experimental original research papers, short communications, review papers and conference reports.
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