Forrest Addy
Diamond
- Joined
- Dec 20, 2000
- Location
- Bremerton WA USA
What can I say? Chris - Clickspring - does marvelous work
Antikythera Episode 3 - The Plates And Main Bearing. - YouTube
The Antikythera Mechanism is worth looking into. It's a geared calculator of the paths of heavenly bodies operated by a hand crank and it's been dated to the ancient Greeks. Whoever made it thousands of years ago was a bona-fide genius IMO.
There's been Nova episodes, Scientific American articles, and dozens of scholarly papers, plus any number of probes into its construction, function, and operation so there's no lack of information on-line and in libraries. Google it and be amazed.
Clickspring has bitten off a hell of a chunk making a working replica of the Antikythera Mechanism but if anyone can do it, he can. And it looks to me as though hes off to a helllova start. I'm looking forward to the next episodes of his build.
Antikythera Episode 3 - The Plates And Main Bearing. - YouTube
The Antikythera Mechanism is worth looking into. It's a geared calculator of the paths of heavenly bodies operated by a hand crank and it's been dated to the ancient Greeks. Whoever made it thousands of years ago was a bona-fide genius IMO.
There's been Nova episodes, Scientific American articles, and dozens of scholarly papers, plus any number of probes into its construction, function, and operation so there's no lack of information on-line and in libraries. Google it and be amazed.
Clickspring has bitten off a hell of a chunk making a working replica of the Antikythera Mechanism but if anyone can do it, he can. And it looks to me as though hes off to a helllova start. I'm looking forward to the next episodes of his build.