Join host Karl Stern as we open the museum of curiosities again this week and pull out an actual real artifact.
This is one that you can really see in a museum, study it, and make models of it: the Antikythera Mechanism. It’s a vastly complex analog computing device dating to presumably 200 BC or earlier with hugely complicated gears and switches that track celestial movements, eclipses, and more — sometimes down to the very hour.
The lost wisdom of our ancestors is astonishing and this artifact seems out of place in the timeline, so let’s talk about it.
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