It’s no surprise then that he’s interested in the Antikythera Mechanism—a small geared ... all the modern theories of the device’s gear train. The entire system is made out of 6mm ...

A large gear in the middle indicated the position of the moon. "The Antikythera Mechanism is the most sophisticated such object yet found from the ancient and medieval periods," writes François ...

suggesting the Antikythera Mechanism may never have worked as intended, that it was just a fancy knickknack. The triangular shape of the gear teeth wasn’t the issue, according to new simulations ...

A pair of physicists at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, in Argentina, have created a computer simulation of the famed Antikythera Mechanism ... triangular-shaped gear teeth did not seem ...

Over the past two decades researchers have been analyzing this component to calculate how well the Antikythera mechanism functioned. Two major problems with the gear train have emerged.

The mysterious Antikythera Mechanism ... efforts to recreate the Mechanism, the researchers also included an accurate model of the Mechanism's triangle-shaped gear teeth, which affect how well ...

the triangular shape of the gear teeth and manufacturing errors. Unlike modern gears, which have curved profiles for smooth motion, those in the Antikythera Mechanism had V-shaped teeth. This caused ...

It took Andrew Carol 30 days to build a working model of the Antikythera Mechanism—the ancient Greek world's most sophisticated astrological instrument. The original device, dating to the second ...

A pair of physicists at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, in Argentina, have created a computer simulation of the famed Antikythera Mechanism and in so doing have found that manufacturing ...