Turns out all the reconstructions were wrong and it was just an early form of what later came to be known as “modern art.”
It always saddens me when knowledge and technology gets lost. Even false knowledge can be useful and should be preserved.
I was curious to see if anyone has made a modern version of this, so I did a bit of Googling and came up with this:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=antikythera-mechanism-an-eclipse-pr-2010-12-09
I’m hearing the whaaaaaaoooooooo sound from “LOST.”
That’s beautiful. Stuff like this always makes me wish I came into the world with math chops.