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Antikythera mechanism (view source)
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[[File:Antikythera mechanism.jpg|right|250px|thumb|The Antikythera mechanism]]
The '''Antikythera mechanism''' is the remains of an object found in 1900 within an ancient shipwreck off the island of Antikythera, Greece. Estimated to be well over 2,000 years old, the Antikythera mechanism has recently been determined to be a highly-precise clock-like astronomical device, made to calculate the motions of the sun, moon, stars and planets over a period of time; that no other example of its kind was made until a thousand years later makes the device all the more remarkable.
The '''Antikythera mechanism''' is the remains of an object found in 1900 within an ancient shipwreck off the island of Antikythera, Greece. Estimated to be well over 2,000 years old, the Antikythera mechanism has recently been determined to be a highly-precise clock-like astronomical device, made to calculate the motions of the sun, moon, stars and planets over a period of time; that no other example of its kind was made until a thousand years later makes the device all the more remarkable.