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Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong — Doorways in Time: The Great Archaeological Finds -- 7: The Antikythera Mechanism
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Doorways in Time: The Great Archaeological Finds -- 7: The Antikythera Mechanism

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

A stunningly complex piece of mathematical craftsmanship, the world's earliest known analogue computer, and the so-called "scientific wonder of the ancient world" -- the Antikythera mechanism was discovered by chance in 1900, by Greek sponge divers who stumbled upon the wreckage of an ancient ship that foundered on…

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