Antikythera Mechanism SOLVED ! #ANTIKYTHERA #MYSTERYSOLVED

Antikythera Mechanism SOLVED ! #ANTIKYTHERA #MYSTERYSOLVED

The UCL Antikythera Research Team struggle to solve the front of the Antikythera Mechanism—a fragmentary ancient Greek astronomical calculator—revealing a dazzling display of the ancient Greek Cosmos.

[TheWirksworthGunroom]

If the question "how did they do this without a lathe?" gives impossible answers, the logical conclusion is that they did have lathes. If they could make the geared wheels for this then they could make dividing heads to produce whatever geared wheels could be desired. It is (in my view) absurd to think that this was the only scientific machine of its kind in the era. It is simply the only one that has been found.

[denvan]

I can sympathize with the researchers concerning their problem of counting gear teeth. It was my job to occasionally produce 2D computer art from original pen and ink technical illustrations of gear clusters. Determining the major and minor diameters of the gears was simple. But counting the number of gear teeth was problematic when one gear was obscured by another or the original board artist, who traced a photograph “fudged“ some of the details. Did that gear have 62 teeth, 63 or 64? Sometimes it was just trial and error to produce a gear that matched with the original illustration.

[theresearcher]

This feels a bit like digging up an Elizabethan wooden warship and finding an iPhone inside.

[erkl]

Whether it was Archimedes or some other absolute genius, can you imagine the dread, frustration, anger, depression, RAGE they must've felt when they were told this device has been sunk just far enough off coast so it would be impossible to retrieve...

[mt-qcqh]

It's difficult for us to imagine how the ancient scientists could have conceived and built such a mechanism, but apparently they had unparalleled focus without the information overload and distractions we have today (i. e. Internet LOL). They would gaze at the night sky and document their observations for generations. These studies would continue to be enhanced with every succeeding generation. I can see the understanding of the math involved, but I'm dazzled my the mechanical abilities to actually build such a mechanism. Pure genius. What else could they have made?

[bikesqump]

"Clickspring" youtube channel dude has been building it using ancient hand making techniques.

[tesssanders]

*Ecclesiastes 1:9 "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun."*

[whoryoudude]

Is it possible to be given updated the full updated model to the 3d printing community? Everything there can be opensource and reproducted by 3d printers for free by anyone.

[valley_robot]

Never mind how this is an incredible thing in itself, but fathom that it’s clockwork a long time before this was a thing

[dongraham]

Most of the hardware in this mechanism would be relatively no problem for a skilled craftsman back then maybe, perhaps a jewellery maker in ancient Greece but the drive tubes within tubes ? I do not understand how those would be made especially 8 of them let alone for them to rotate smoothly in operation ? That would be challenging even today with a precision lathe and in fact I don't think you could do it even with a lathe, the walls are too thin ! There are several other methods we could use today to construct them such as high speed grinders etc, but back then ?? The only way I can think of would be to manufacture mandrels made of iron the correct internal diameter of each tube then to fold and beat thin brass sheet around the mandrel and finally solder the joint . With accurate forging then shaping and trueing of the mandrels, that may work .

[Devoceantattoo]

I'm sure they had many similar devices for many different uses, but this was the only one found somewhat intact considering it being 2000 years ago.

[OneTwo-nwub]

23:32 "if you got no lathe" Ancient Greeks were able to build the Antikythera mechanism but not able to make a simple lathe to machine a tube? Why this perennial reluctance of researches to consider that previous civilisations had more advanced tools than a copper chisel and a rock-hammer?

[likes-yvlj]

12:34 I’m not saying the earth is flat but 2000 years later we still don’t fully understand this machine but we have the balls to say that it’s wrong because they thought everything revolved around the earth. It makes you think
ohhh so at 14:30 you say that there is a simple way to explain it and that the ancients didn’t in the exact way that you would see them move if you just happened to be standing on earth... what a coincidence

[Jackson-T]

22:13 This is absolutely mindblowing engineering and astronomy even in today's time and this happened over 2000 years ago.

[steb]

The question at the end, 'Why did they stop making devices like this?'
Because it was made by one very clever person who was commissioned to make it or made it as a hobby but it took their whole life to make and they never passed on the knowledge.
Beautiful piece of kit.

[MacHamish]

I wonder if anyone has gone back to the dive site with metal detectors to look for more pieces?

[maikatupua]

Greetings from Fiji 🇫🇯. Presentation is impeccable... thank you for sharing

[orlandoadrian]

this is what sokka used to find the date of the next eclipse which caused the ancient library to sink...

[gaetanovindigni]

Did the Greeks first create a larger, manually operated, mechanism followed by the smaller version found in the sea?
A large indoor room where objects representing planets were moved on a schedule to match the actual planetary movements. Or a nearby outdoor area?

[cncpopc]

I have been putting comments on MANY YouTube sites pointing out that roughly 130 BC Cicero (depending on how long it took to get written (in handwritten Latin), in loose discussion about types of government possible from simple (dictator) to complex executive plus representative ... tried to give an example of how complexity can do great things. He relates his 'years ago' conversation with Scipio Africanus who had met the man (a genius beyond his own ability to comprehend - apparently in Sicily - Punic Wars) who built this device which is described in amazing detail (second hand by a senator with zero backdrop to fudge such a story). Crank it, hand held, predicted stars, planets, moon and ==> TIDES <== among other things. The only thing missing is a videoclip of the conversation!!!