Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Still amazed by this.

It's the first computer that we know of.  The Mesopotamian civilizations were also very much into celestial observations, and for all we know, could have also attempted such a machine.

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  1. They also had very complicated water clocks that told accurate time.

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    1. Too bad that Roman soldier skewered Archimedes, no telling what else he might have come up with.

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  2. That sure makes me wonder what else the ancients had, that we know nothing of today.

    How many times have we only "re-discovered" what was once already known?

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