In 1900, between the ruins of a shipwreck in Antikythera island, it was discovered the most complicated mechanism that we have of the ancient. It was build around the second half of the second century B.C. and it is in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. It has 30 gears converved but in the ancient it has twice approximately. It permited make several astronomical calculations, including the position of the Sun, the Moon phase, perhaps the situation of planets, the stars appearance on the horizon and the dates of the Olympic games. Today, the function of this mechanism is disputed because it is very complicated.
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