The heart of the Antikythera Mechanism This book revives approximately two

This book revives approximately two hundred exceptional ancient Greek inventions (from the robot - servant of Philon to the cinema of Heron and from the automatic clock of Ktesibios to the analog computer of Antikythera) and aims to demonstrate that the technology of the ancient Greeks

It is a variant of trias that made its appearance during the Hellenistic era and continued to be played up to recently (as enniapetro- consisted of nine stones)

Such an abacus

pistons and cylinders

a goose in flight

The heart of the Antikythera Mechanism This book revives approximately twoIt is the surviving intelligent epicyclic gearwork that delivers the apparent speed of the moon. Rotate and observe the apparent "golden" moon pulling ahead and sometimes delaying the actual "oxidiced" moon moving at a constant speed.