The Antikythera mechanism is still revealing its secrets
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The Antikythera mechanism is still revealing its secrets
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Re: The Antikythera mechanism is still revealing its secrets
#2Here's a replica of the device made out of Legos
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#3Derek de Solla Price is an interesting character. 50+ years ago while stacking and organizing scientific journals by year, he noticed the stacks grew in height in a logarithmic curve. From there, so much.
"He was The Avalon Professor of the History of Science at Yale University from 1960 until his death in 1983. He was the first to record a complete lecture series on History of Science which could serve as a foundation for studies around the world... His entire 1976 lecture series 'Neolithic to Now' is now available on-line and for free at http://derekdesollaprice.org/"
[Ignore the site design--the material is amazing.]
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#4There's a great BBC documentary on this from a couple of years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q124C7W0WYA
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#5Is it just me, or does the "photo" of a diver wearing an Exosuit not really look like a real photo?
https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://...
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#6Derek de Solla Price is an interesting character. 50+ years ago while stacking and organizing scientific journals by year, he noticed the stacks grew in height in a logarithmic curve. From there, so much. "He was The Avalon Professor of the History of Science at Yale University from 1960 until his death in 1983. He was the first to record a complete lecture series on History of Science which could serve as a foundati…
The site design is just fine with me. Good content is far more important than eye candy.
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#7Can anyone with free access post the PDFs from the Almagest journal articles? http://www.hpdst.gr/publications/almagest/issues/7-1
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#8Is it just me, or does the "photo" of a diver wearing an Exosuit not really look like a real photo? https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://...
But it probably really is a photo. Here [1] and here [2] are some more and that thing looks pretty unreal in most of them.
[1] http://wetpixel.com/full_frame/brett-seymour-return-to-antik...
[2] http://antikythera.whoi.edu/2014/10/07/exosuit-dives-antikyt...
Re: The Antikythera mechanism is still revealing its secrets
#9Is it just me, or does the "photo" of a diver wearing an Exosuit not really look like a real photo? https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://...
But it probably really is a photo. Here [1] and here [2] are some more and that thing looks pretty unreal in most of them. [1] http://wetpixel.com/full_frame/brett-seymour-return-to-antik... [2] http://antikythera.whoi.edu/2014/10/07/exosuit-dives-antikyt...
It looks like the color saturation was maxed out and some of the blues and reds started clipping in the saturation range.
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#10What would the world be like if these ancient scientists and engineers persisted and their science and craft carried on and developed further? Instead, the period that followed gave rise to belief systems that still give us problems today. How very sad.