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Arthur Little
17th May 2017, 12:47
:cwm25: ... has anyone here taken notice of today's Google doodle ... commemorating the discovery of an ancient "computer~like" device, by a Greek sponge diver, 115 years ago?

So ... :anerikke: ... what is it? It is reckoned to be an analogy of an early archaeological, astronomical "tool" ... used in prehistoric times, for calculating the position of the *planets - as *they were then known - apparently.

www.age-of-the-sage.org/archaeology/antikythera_mechanism.html ... :ReadIt:

Michael Parnham
17th May 2017, 17:24
What an amazing and interesting Find Arthur, great educational read:xxgrinning--00xx3: