On 5/22/2017 3:21 PM, Bald Eagle wrote:
> I watched:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSQNEPbQOiI
>
> over the weekend, and they highlighted this assembly:
>
> http://www2.ups.edu/faculty/jcevans/Carman%20Thorndike%20Evans.pdf
>
> with a claim to the effect that it was a gear mechanism unknown to modern
> watchmakers.     Given that there are such things as:
>
> http://507movements.com/
>
> I find that alone fascinating.
>

Thanks, I think that I will find some use for that site. In the future. :)

> They then go on to say that according to their best guess - it was probably
> Aristotle himself who invented the Antikythera device.   :O
>

Ah! history. :)

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Regards
     Stephen

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