{"id":10640,"date":"2006-12-04T12:40:18","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T19:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/12\/04\/in-search-of-ancient-astronomers.html"},"modified":"2006-12-04T12:40:18","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T19:40:18","slug":"in_search_of_ancient_astr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/04\/in_search_of_ancient_astr.html","title":{"rendered":"In Search of Ancient Astronomers"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n<\/div>\n

More cool research on an ancient astronomical computer<\/a>, which I remember being touted as “proof positive” in the old Van Daniken books that we’d been visited by extraterrestrials.<\/p>\n

\n

The Antikythera Mechanism, sometimes called the world\u2019s first computer, has now been examined with the latest in high-resolution imaging systems and three-dimensional X-ray tomography. A team of British, Greek and American researchers was able to decipher many inscriptions and reconstruct the gear functions, revealing, they said, \u201can unexpected degree of technical sophistication for the period.\u201d<\/p>\n

The researchers, led by Tony Freeth and Mike G. Edmunds, both of the University of Cardiff, Wales, are reporting the results of their study in Thursday\u2019s issue of the journal Nature.<\/p>\n

They said their findings showed that the inscriptions related to lunar-solar motions and the gears were a mechanical representation of the irregularities of the Moon\u2019s orbital course across the sky, as theorized by the astronomer Hipparchos. They established the date of the mechanism at 150-100 B.C.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More cool research on an ancient astronomical computer, which I remember being touted as “proof positive” in the old Van Daniken books that we’d been visited by extraterrestrials. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":220,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/27\/in_search_of_fu.html","url_meta":{"origin":10640,"position":0},"title":"In Search of … Fun!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 27-May-03 7:49am","format":false,"excerpt":"Anybody who grew up in the 70s remembers the popularity of Erich von D\u00e4niken, whose pseudo-science books like Chariots of the Gods? posited the theory that aliens were responsible for...","rel":"","context":"In "Science & Nature"","block_context":{"text":"Science & Nature","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/science"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":129572,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/30\/ancient-people-werent-dumb.html","url_meta":{"origin":10640,"position":1},"title":"Ancient people weren't dumb","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 30-Jan-16 10:09am","format":false,"excerpt":"We all too often think of ancient peoples as stupid, living in their clay-brick buildings, driving donkeys and carts, worshipping silly things, wearing rough clothing.They weren't stupid. They were ignorant of stuff -- which is to day that it hadn't been invented \/ discovered yet. And so much of what\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3879,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/19\/poll_positions.html","url_meta":{"origin":10640,"position":2},"title":"Poll positions","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-Mar-03 8:24am","format":false,"excerpt":"Have you ever noticed that when poll information supports someone's information -- like \"A majority of the US population opposes a war in Iraq\" -- then folks who want to...","rel":"","context":"In "Politics & Law"","block_context":{"text":"Politics & Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9856,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/19\/cloak_of_invis_anyone.html","url_meta":{"origin":10640,"position":3},"title":"Cloak of Invis, anyone?","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 19-Oct-06 11:18am","format":false,"excerpt":"No, really. A team of American and British researchers has made a Cloak of Invisibility. Well, OK, it's not perfect. Yet. But it's a start, and it did a pretty...","rel":"","context":"In "Gaming"","block_context":{"text":"Gaming","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/gaming"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4498,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/20\/the_face_seems.html","url_meta":{"origin":10640,"position":4},"title":"The face seems familiar … well, not really","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 20-Aug-03 10:34am","format":false,"excerpt":"Interesting. Tampa is pulling the plug on facial recognition software in its police surveillance cameras. After two years of usage, it produced no positive IDs and no arrests. Originally touted...","rel":"","context":"In "Homeland Security"","block_context":{"text":"Homeland Security","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/homeland-security"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27116,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/15\/rome-wasnt-rendered-in-a-day.html","url_meta":{"origin":10640,"position":5},"title":"Rome wasn’t rendered in a day","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 15-Mar-12 9:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Very cool. #ddtb Reshared post from +Jeff Moriarty History Porn: Gorgeous video flythrough of ancient Rome The Rome Reborn project is recreating aspects of ancient Rome in incredible, digital detail. This video short takes you through what Rome would have looked like around 320 CE, when it was at the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}