2000 Year Old Astronomical Computer has Scientists Perplexed

They may have used these objects but never saw a reason to develop more small cog toys.

Being made of bronze, it was prime for recycling since bronze was in high demand for weapons etc (as far as the Romans are concerned).

Make you wonder what other technology we've had to re-invent.

I agree totally. It scares me what IS sitting right now at the bottom of the Meditterranean waiting to be discovered ... and how different the world today would have been if the great fire at the Library of Alexandria had not occurred. :oops:

Reminds me of the map showing the land mass of Antartica, hundreds of years before it was remapped in modern times.

great shots anthony.

Glad you like 'em ... and thanks!

but that cannot be a computer there is no microsoft logo on it .

A small clarification ... it cannot be a FUNCTIONAL computer there is no microsoft logo on it ....

it just goes to show how silly humans are as a species. each generation thinks they are the cleverest and the most modern but someone has probably come up with the idea before. it just goes to show you what could be lying at the bottom of the med awaiting to be discovered. if there was one of these devices maybe there are more of them.

I agree totally 100% on all points!

During the Christianization of Europe there was a period during which devout clerics, intent on preserving the Word, raided the libraries of Europe for good parchment vellum (often in the form of a bound book) that they then recycled. They did it by scrubbing the surface if the vellum with sand to remove the writing and then using it to record a Gospel or some of what we now know as the Acts of the Apostles. These reused volumes are known as palimpsests.

Unfortunately it now appears that some, lacking an appreciation of the arts and sciences, recycled copies of important scientific, literary and historical works. A team from the Rochester Institute of Technology and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore is currently conserving the only known copy of an important codex known as the "Archimedes Palimpsest" .

From a historical perspective it is interesting that much of this vandalism seems to have been carried out by clerics during the middle part of what we call the Dark Ages. It seems to have been a period of particular religious zeal during which the secular arts and sciences were less appreciated.

What else was lost one wonders when the illiterate Germanic Goths, Vandals and the Huns overran the Graeco-Roman Empire?

Surely 410 AD (the year Aleric the Hun and his Germanic hordes sacked Rome) must rank as one of the darkest days in the history of Human civilisation.

Aleric, and Attilla the Hun, left only smoking ruins in their wake.

Continental Europe was plunged into hundreds of years of "The Dark Ages" .

Where would we be now if the Romans had managed to keep the Barbarians in their place north of the alps ?

Peter.

What else was lost one wonders when the illiterate Germanic Goths, Vandals and the Huns overran the Graeco-Roman Empire?

Surely 410 AD (the year Aleric the Hun and his Germanic hordes sacked Rome) must rank as one of the darkest days in the history of Human civilisation.

Aleric, and Attilla the Hun, left only smoking ruins in their wake.

Continental Europe was plunged into hundreds of years of "The Dark Ages" .

Where would we be now if the Romans had managed to keep the Barbarians in their place north of the alps ?

Peter.

in chains, in rome for sale probably.