Checking the Antikythera Mechanism's Calendar Maths with 20 Lines of Python

The Antikythera mechanism, the bronze geared device recovered from a Roman-era shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera in 1900–1901, is often called the oldest known analogue computer. Its back dials encode a handful of astronomical cycles that Babylonian and Greek astronomers already knew. A fun question for a developer is simple: how good... Weiterlesen: Checking the Antikythera Mechanism's Calendar Maths with 20 Lines of …