Antikythera Mechanism
From Boing Boing I found this scholarly article about the Antikythera Mechanism, and intricate geared model of the solar system. It was lost at sea off the coast of Antikythera, an island between Crete and the Greek mainland, around 80 BC. The interest in this device is that nothing like it was seen until at least 1000 AD, nearly 1100 years later. The Greeks, it seems, were early innovators in mechanical clockwork devices.
The rest is at Boing Boing.
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We ‘lost’ a huge amount of great knowledge and technology during the dark ages here in Europe – inkluding this little bugger. Blame it on the church – at least I do!
The RC Church, which was more a political than a religious force of the day.
I blame it on the CATHOLIC church as well. All they wanted was power and did not care how it was obtained. The Bible records the L-rd saying, “they worship me for nothing because they adhere to the traditions of men.” Those men were the men in charge of the Catholic church.