antikythera in A Sentence

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    It's not quite the Antikythera mechanism, but it's close enough for some of us.

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    It was retrieved from a shipwreck discovered off the Greek island of Antikythera in 1901, but a decades-long study has only now announced new results.

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    Modern research in this area has been focused on the Antikythera mechanism, another device from classical antiquity that was probably designed for the same purpose.

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    Although we now know that the Babylonians discovered how to use geometry to track the course of Jupiter in around 1800 BC, the Antikythera mechanism is the earliest known device that automatically calculates astronomical phenomena.

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    This was once thought to have been beyond the range of the technology available in ancient times, but the discovery of the Antikythera mechanism in 1902 has confirmed that devices of this kind were known to the ancient Greeks.

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