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Old 12-19-2008, 03:58 PM   #1
Kisai
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In 1901, a very strange mechanical device was found in a wreck off of a Greek Island between Kythera and Crete. It was dated to 150-100 B.C. and was such a complex mechanism (albiet a broken, corroded one) that some people thought it to be an anachronism.

Well, someone has recreated a working model of it, a 2000 year old clockwork device for predicting the movement of the heavenly bodies:



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