Comment on Oldest computer

DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• Gacrux@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  the ancient greeks came up with their own model to track and predict

  • the positions of the planets
  • the position of the sun
  • the position and phase of the moon
  • solar and lunar eclipses

  this machine is basically their mathematical models summarized into mechanical form

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• saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Clock? Ah, you must “time computer”.

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