The Antikythera Cosmos

How come this incredible channel has no support , so less views ,even the uneducated person getting millions of views ? It's absolutely heartbreaking for me !

25:00 Nested tubes: take a thin strip of copper / bronze and tie it around a welldefined (wooden?) diameter like the inner carton of toilet paper rolls. Then solder the strip (solder was known and used on the antikythera mechanism). Cut off at right angle and in the right length and voilà: nested tube, very filigran, not hours of filing. Have the necessary 8 or 9 wooden diameters handy - the same copperstrip can be used for all diameters.

An extraordinary work! Thanks Дякую

Incredible amount of dedication, work, and research over such a long period of time. Much well-deserved respect. I would like to point out something that may have been overlooked about the purpose of the Antikythera Mecahnism, though. Seeing as how it was likely the most advanced piece of technology for its time and having seemingly scarce numbers of them built, why would they take the risk of hauling this amazingly unique astronomical device on a ship that could potentially be lost to the sea forever? The seas are a hugely volatile place with varying depths and hazards, especially among the Greek isles and the Greeks knew this very well. It would be a bit obtuse of us today to assume that the ancient Greeks would be so reckless or arrogant to ignore these risks when handling such a device. It just doesn’t add up for me. Additionally, it would be incredibly important and relevant to them to be able to predict, in any way they could, the movements of the seas. This would most definitely include the relationship between the ocean’s tides and phases of the moon. This would be infinitely useful in naval strategy, trade route planning and tactical maneuvering, just to name a few. I believe this device was intended to be used for nothing more than to predict the tides around the Greek isles and with a brilliant mind such as Archimedes to produce such a precise instrument at their disposal, why wouldn’t they? The profound implications that arose from the creation of such a device may only be fully appreciated by us today who can take information like this for granted(or Archimedes himself). This such an incredible story and piece of history that really reinforces my love for astronomy and very much so renews my inspiration toward the field. I hope this helps and I look forward to more of your work. Thank you!

Its been 17 years since the last xrays, are there any plans to take new higher resolution xrays any time soon? Fascinating stuff.

This is ABSOLUTELY EXTRAORDINARY 💯

Well presented docu, and... fascinating.

Horology ("the study of time", related to Latin horologium from Greek ὡρολόγιον, "instrument for telling the hour", from ὥρα hṓra "hour; time" and o interfix and suffix -logy)[1][2] is the study of the measurement of time. Clocks, watches, clockwork, sundials, hourglasses, clepsydras, timers, time recorders, marine chronometers, and atomic clocks are all examples of instruments used to measure time. In current usage, horology refers mainly to the study of mechanical time-keeping devices, while chronometry more broadly includes electronic devices that have largely supplanted mechanical clocks for the best accuracy and precision in time-keeping. Horoscope Hour Watch Watch Tower Lighthouse Mathematician comes from Mathema, a strong correlation to Magi, or Mathematician; Magician.

Wow. That's awesome!

Wonderful!

I kept expecting Chris from Clickspring to pop in and explain it. Anyone know how his work fits in / compares with this group?

Hi Tony. I just watched the special about the mechanism that was built. I am a complete novice to all of this but I just find this fascinating. Excuse me if this is a dumb question. Maybe I didn't pay enough attention in school. Haha. But how in the world did they know there were other planets out there? Especially without telescopes. And how could they map out their orbits? Thank you and what a wonderful job you have done with this. It's amazing to me and just beyond my scope of knowledge.

In all the explanations of the mechanism of Antikythera, there prevails a geocentric interpretation of the kosmos. But when you look at the construction, it is the solar gear A1 that defines all the movements of the moon, the planets and the Saros and Meton cycles. Does this not make a point towards a heliocentric view of the kosmos? The greeks were a.f.a.I.k. open for this interpretation.

Of course they had lathes. Anyone who could build something so sophisticated as the AM could easily build a lathe. And I see Archimedes more as an advanced school rather than just a brilliant old man

ALgorithm.

25:00 Nested tubes: take a thin strip of copper / bronze and tie it around a welldefined (wooden?) diameter like the inner carton of toilet paper rolls. Then solder the strip (solder was known and used on the antikythera mechanism). Cut off at right angle and in the right length and voilà: nested tube, very filigran, not hours of filing. Have the necessary 8 or 9 wooden diameters handy - the same copperstrip can be used for all diameters.