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Could the answer to the Antikythera astronomical device emerge from a Manhattan basement?

14 Jun 2024 Robert P Crease

Robert P Crease meets inventor-financier-explorer Michael Dubno, who is trying to solve the mystery of the Antikythera mechanical device, used by ancient Greeks to predict astronomical positions

The Antikythera Mechanism: artistic rendering of the oldest analogue computer
Mysterious mechanism Artistic rendering of the Antikythera device that was found in a shipwreck and dates back to the 2nd or 3rd century BCE. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Aerial Earth)
“You can’t understand it unless you build it yourself,” says Michael Dubno, a scientist, inven

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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, US and writes the monthly Critical Point column for Physics World, robertpcrease.com, e-mail robert.crease@stonybrook.edu. His latest book is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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