The Antikythera Mechanism: Decoding a 2,000-Year-Old Machine
Published · 35 min
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In spring 1900, a sponge diver surfaced off a small Greek island, shaking, and reported a seabed covered with dead bodies. They were statues, from a ship that sank around 60 BCE. Among the cargo was a corroded lump that turned out to be the most complicated piece of machinery known from the ancient world: a bronze machine that used gears to calculate the sky. Only about a third of it survives, in 82 pieces.
Narration in this film is a synthetic, cloned voice. Sources and image credits are in the YouTube description.
Chapters
- 00:00 The men on the seabed
- 01:47 A deadly salvage
- 04:54 A gear among the scraps
- 06:49 Looking through bronze
- 09:05 The curator's workshop
- 11:06 Eight tons of X-rays
- 13:53 The back of the machine
- 17:21 A Moon that speeds up
- 20:44 A cosmos on the front
- 24:24 Counting holes
- 27:03 Who built it?
- 30:07 Not a computer
- 32:39 The ladder of evidence
