hi
For anyone in northern England who might be interested, one of the lectures
next year at the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society will be about
the Antikythera Mechanism
Merry Christmas
Ian Maddocks
Chester, UK
ian_maddo...@hotmail.com
from http://www.manlitphil.co.uk/13.html
Wednesday, 26 May 2010, 7.00pm
The Antikythera Mechanism
Professor Mike Edmunds
Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of Cardiff
What may well be the most extraordinary surviving artifact from the ancient
Greek world was discovered just over a century ago. Found in 1900 in a wreck
off the coast of the Mediterranean island of Antikythera, the device contains
over thirty gear wheels and dates from around 100 B.C. Now known as the
Antikythera Mechanism, it is an order of magnitude more complicated than any
surviving mechanism from the following millennium, and there is no surviving
precursor.
MANDEC, Higher Cambridge Street, Manchester
Some other links
http://www.antikythera-mechanism.gr/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
http://www.mandec.co.uk/mandec_dental_education_centre_location/mandec_how_to_find_us.html
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