The Antikythera Machine
So it was a busy week, and I was behind everyone and their brother blogging about the Antikythera machine. Most of the articles only gave a few pictures. The one shown here is from Philip Coppens, who has great background. Also, courtesy of Stefan Geens [link to http://www.stefangeens.com/interesting/2006_11.html#000868 no longer works], here are 3d views, courtesy of HP [link to http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/ptm/antikythera_mechanism/index.html no longer works] and Scientific American.