“Using advanced imaging techniques, an Anglo-Greek team probed the remaining fragments of the complex geared device. The results, published in the journal Nature, show it could have been used to predict solar and lunar eclipses. The elaborate arrangement of bronze gears may also have displayed planetary information.”
Ah, interesting. They’re been speculating wildly about this thing for a good century now. But…
“…not all experts agree with the team’s interpretation of the mechanism.”
As they only have a portion of the mechanism, it has been assembled any number of ways to display all sort of data. It is a bit like this.
Still, there is no denying that it is “technically more complex than any known device for at least a millennium afterwards.”
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Comments (2)
I love it when you post stuff like this; you point me toward something I ought to have read, and make me chuckle concurrently.
Enjoyed the picture/monadnock tutorial, too.
I think the mechanism was probably used for making toast. That’s as plausible as some of the other interpretations I have seen.
In addition to all the cool geological information, the word monadnock itself is fantastic.