Hi John G: What a great video that was. He made a complicated topic look simple. Thanks!
John C. -----Original Message----- From: sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On Behalf Of John Goodman Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 8:40 AM To: sundial@uni-koeln.de Subject: Re: antikythera mechanism Another video on the topic of mechanical computers: http://www.ted.com/talks/tom_wujec_demos_the_13th_century_astrolabe.html > Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:51:46 -0500 > From: patrick_pow...@compuserve.com > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Frank: An amazing device indeed. Sadly I couldn't get to the one day Cambridge Symposium on it last winter but I much enjoyed viewing the video clip on the Nature web site: > > http://www.nature.com/nature/videoarchive/antikythera/ > > I was left musing just how arrogant we are today to assume that the ancients couldn't 'do' some things. What's the betting now that Stonehenge was not just a religious site but might indeed have been as Fred Hoyle believed? > > Patrick --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
