Episode 1 The Mystery of the Antikythera Mechanism

23/08/2025 5 min Episodio 1
Episode 1 The Mystery of the Antikythera Mechanism

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If you were to picture the first “computer” in human history, your mind might jump straight to the 20th century—perhaps the giant, humming machines of the 1940s, or even the sleek personal computers of the 1980s. But what if I told you that more than two thousand years ago, the ancient Greeks had already built a device so complex, so ahead of its time, that many scientists today still call it the world’s first analog computer?

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