Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 3:30 pm — Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510
The Antikythera Mechanism is an ancient Greek bronze gearwork device found in fragments in 1902 among the cargo of a ship that was wrecked off the island of Antikythera about 70 B.C. Research on the fragments has taken place on and off since their discovery, most recently with the aid of computed tomography and Polynomial Texture Mapping. It is now established that the Mechanism was designed to display a wide range of chronological cycles and periodic astronomical phenomena dependent on time; no other artifact resembling this kind of sophisticated technology is known to have survived from Greco-Roman times. The present talk will describe the main stages by which we have learned what we now know about the Mechanism, and the direction of ongoing research.
Hosted by: Robert Pisarski
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