Friday 17 December 2010

Antikythera mechanism built with Lego.

Built over 2000 years ago, the Antikythera machine shows quality that were not repeatable for almost an other 2000 years.

Built in 150 to 100 BC, maybe by Posidonius on Rhodes, it was found on a sunken ship in 1900 near Crete.

The mechanism seems to be an astronomical analog calculator used to predict the positions of the sun, the plantes and the moon. Thirty gears have survived, others have been lost, some suggest, that there might been more than double that amount.

The work in the video was made by Andrew Carol, an Apple software engineer, out of 1'500 Lego pieces.

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