The Antikythera Mechanism: The Ancient Greek Computer

<p>In nineteen hundred, sponge divers surfaced from a Greek shipwreck screaming about bodies on the seabed. What they'd actually found was a two-thousand-year-old machine — dozens of precision bronze gears that could predict eclipses, track the moon's irregular orbit, and model the entire known cosmos with the turn of a handle.</p><p>Nothing like it appears again for over a thousand years. August Mercer explores how the ancient world built a computer, how we nearly threw it away, and the terrifying ease with which human knowledge simply vanishes. This is Six Feet of History — five minutes of the past they'd rather you forget.</p><p><em>Follow for a new story every day. A Dark Whisper Studios production.</em></p>