Astronomical computer more than 2,000 years old

The Antikythera Mechanism, the world's oldest computer, was used by the Greeks to calculate astronomy more than 2,000 years ago.

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According to Fox News, the ancient Antikythera Mechanism machine was the first "computer" in the world, salvaged from a shipwreck off the Greek coast in 1901. It represents a scientific level. Technical master of ancient Greeks. The Antikythera Mechanism is now stored at Athens National Archaeological Museum.

The latest study by James Evans, professor of physics at Puget Sound University, USA, and Professor Christian Carman at Quilmes University, Argentina, shows that the machine appeared in about 205 BC, earlier than 50. up to 100 years compared to the previous calculation.

The Antikythera Mechanism was recovered from a shipwreck in the waters off Greece.(Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

A statement from the University of Puget Sound confirmed that the study "filled a gap in the history of science" by the ancient Greeks. Accordingly, they can predict eclipses, eclipses and design a highly predictive machine, much earlier than previously thought.

The results also show that the predictions of eclipses and eclipses are not based on the trigonometric calculations of the Greeks (not in 205 BC) but based on the arithmetic method of Babylonians.

The predictions also take into account the irregularities of the moon and the sun (the speed of the machine runs faster or slower), eclipse cycles, total or partial eclipses and many astronomical phenomena other.

However, the research has encountered many difficulties because only one-third of the Antikythera Mechanism machine has been preserved intact until now.

The scientific community also raises questions about the connection between the machine and the life of Archimedes. He was one of the leading scientists of the Greeks at the time. He died in 212 BC.