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Antikythera, completed 3D reconstruction of the oldest computer in the world

A team of scientists reconstructs the complete 3D model of the Antikythera machine, believed to be the first analog computer in history. Next step: full-size reconstruction.

Gianluca Ricciodi Gianluca Riccio
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A research team used the 3D modeling to recreate the complex gear system of Antikythera's fascinating machine.

The 2000-year-old device, often referred to as the world's oldest "computer," was recreated for study purposes by scientists trying to understand how it worked.

Antikythera, 120 years ago the discovery of "an ancient modernity"

Ever since they found it in Greece in 1901 in a Roman-era wreck, the Antikythera Mechanism has baffled experts.

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It is thought that the device (powered by hand) was used to predict eclipses and other astronomical events.

The problem is (was it?) That only a third of the Antikythera device survived, leaving researchers to ponder how it worked, and what it originally looked like.

Rebuilding the myth

The rear of the mechanism had been reconstructed from previous studies, but the nature of the complex gear system at the front of the Antikythera device has long been a mystery.

Scientists fromUniversity College London (UCL) believe they have finally solved the puzzle using 3D computer modeling. They have recreated the entire front panel and are now hoping to build a full-scale replica of the Antikythera using modern materials.

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Only about a third of the device has survived and is made up of more than 80 fragments

Friday, a paper published in Scientific Reports revealed a new visualization of the gear system that showed its details and complex parts.

"The Sun, the Moon and the planets are displayed in an impressive succession in the style of ancient Greece," says the lead author of the article, Professor Tony freeth.

Ours is the first model that conforms to all physical evidence and matches the descriptions in the scientific inscriptions engraved on the mechanism itself

Antikythera, an interactive cosmological calculator

It is believed, as mentioned, that the Antikythera mechanism is the oldest computer in the world. The mechanism has been described as an astronomical computer and the world's first analog computer.

It is made of bronze and includes dozens of gears.

The back cover of the Antikythera machine presents a description of the cosmos, and shows the movement of the five planets that were known at the time the device was built.

The reconstruction was long and complex because only 82 fragments of the original device survived. That's about a third of the total. Scientists had to reconstruct the full picture using X-ray data and a mathematical method from ancient Greece.

The next step? Life-size reconstruction. And then the wonder of seeing it work live.

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