Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Antikythera-mekanismen" in Danish language version.
The Antikythera Mechanism is now understood to be dedicated to astronomical phenomena and operates as a complex mechanical 'computer' which tracks the cycles of the Solar System.
The Antikythera Mechanism-The First Known Computer
The Antkythera Mechanism [The first computer worthy of the name...]
[In the first detailed description of the device in 1903, Perklis Rediadis's] lasting contribution was not to be the identification of the Mechanism as a mechanical counterpart of the astrolabe, which turned out to be wrong, but the general idea that the gears functioned as a device for calculating quantitative data by means of moving parts—that is, an analog computer.
It was a mechanical computer for calculating lunar, solar, and stellar calendars.
Mike G. Edmunds and colleagues used imaging and high-resolution X-ray tomography to study fragments of the Antikythera Mechanism, a bronze mechanical analog computer thought to calculate astronomical positions
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal kræver |journal= (hjælp)"This device is extraordinary, the only thing of its kind," said Professor Edmunds. "The astronomy is exactly right ... in terms of historic and scarcity value, I have to regard this mechanism as being more valuable than the Mona Lisa." and "One of the remaining mysteries is why the Greek technology invented for the machine seemed to disappear."
Imagine tossing a top-notch laptop into the sea, leaving scientists from a foreign culture to scratch their heads over its corroded remains centuries later. A Roman shipmaster inadvertently did something just like it 2,000 years ago off southern Greece, experts said late Thursday.
The Antikythera Mechanism is now understood to be dedicated to astronomical phenomena and operates as a complex mechanical 'computer' which tracks the cycles of the Solar System.