A Handmade Antikythera Mechanism: Rediscovering an Ancient Greek Enigma
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Published 2022-10-11
Credits:
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Manufactured by Dr Alastair Godfrey
Filming & video editing by Mike Godfrey
Narration by Hazel Mitchell
Photos kindly provided by Brett Seymour (www.brettseymourphotography.com/)
A special thanks to Dr Tony Freeth (UCL) for his research into the mechanism, which informed many aspects of the design.
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Suggested further content:
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Clickspring has a brilliant series on manufacturing an Antikythera mechanism using historically appropriate techniques: • Making The Antikythera Mechanism
Updates on further wreck expeditions can be found here: youtube.com/user/antikythera2012
Lots more information about the Antikythera mechanism: www.antikythera-mechanism.gr/
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Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
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License code: BMWWBZCC3SFHN42E
One of Dr Tony Freeth's paper, referenced in video: www.nature.com/articles/nature05357
CT data: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=d…
All Comments (21)
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There's another channel called ClickSpring where the guys shows how the ancient Greeks could have conceivably created a surprisingly accurate dividing head using nothing more than hand tools, which would be required to accurately space the gear teeth.
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This is a masterpiece of engineering, and is exquisitely beautiful.
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What an amazing mechanism! To think this was originally made all those years ago, I really want to go back in time and see how they made such delicate and precise components!
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What is even more astounding is that such a device was in use 2000 years or more ago. Ancient craftmanship not only in creating the cogged wheels, but also the bolts that hold the device together. How was such precise engineering achieved? How did they create the absolutely flat places of brass from which the wheels were made? The knowledge of astronomy was incredible - long-term observations taken, corrected and verified over many decades. This points to a civilization capable of employing and maintaining guilds of master craftsmen and astronomers - all taking lifetimes of dedication in building a knowledge base. Who knows what was lost in the burning of the Library of Alexander.
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Incredible. Now imagine this being made thousands of years ago
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What a mastepiece! Not only the original mechanism but the replica of it as well! thank you Sir! As a Greek, I'm grateful to you!
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Very interesting video. Nicely illustrated and narrated. Thank you
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I love your videos. I don’t know anything about metal working or machining, but I like learning new stuff, about most anything. Your videos are an inspiration to me, a 3D computer graphics animation artist. I love watching a master at work!
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I knew the story of the Mechanism, so this title caught my eye. Fantastic vid. TYVM
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Well done - absolutely brilliant job. I knew that somebody other than me would tackle this incredible machine and its stunning planetarium eventually!! Bravo. 😊👏
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My all too soon late father (1904 - 1954) was an educated watchmaker, and he would have loved to see this mechanism explained! But he managed to see the, still most precise mechanical Clock in the World (Guinness)! "The Olsen Clock" in a side room in the Town Hall in Copenhagen.
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great video.. Thanks for sharing
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Wow! This is something different !
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this should get more views . amazing thank you so much.
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yay love this clock
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God, I would absolutely love to own a reproduction of this fascinating little mechanism.
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A Master Work!❤ model is different to movie " Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" I am intriged how they reconstruct this artifact, original heavily and very damaged for rust. Anyway, an lovely intriging history!
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Guy is so smart he could cure cancer but chose to do this instead. Thanks.
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What’s amazing is how archimedes made the antikythera thousands of years ago with no lathes no modern machines that we have now. That’s amazing
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Great! Such a nice work and reproduction of this artifact! love it <3 How big is the original? That's a lot smaller, isn't it? or does the replica correspond to the original size?
