2023-05-26 00:02:00
The discovery of a shipwreck estimated to be 2000 years old left scientists stumped by its sophistication. researchers of the University College London used 3D models to rebuild a found device and test if it works. However, everything left more doubts than certainties.
There are thousands of unknowns regarding ancient life in modernity. Different investigations are carried out to discover and build what life was like thousands of years ago. Some archaeological discoveries give an initial kick of how people lived thousands of years ago and What tools did they use on a daily basis?
On this occasion, the 2,000-year-old Greek shipwreck, known as “the first computer”surprised the scientific field by the antikythera mechanism that has.
It is believed to be more sophisticated than any other tool invented in the next thousand years, leaving scientists to figure out how they went regarding creating a device more advanced than any other.
This handheld device used a wind-up dial system for tracking the celestial time of the sun, moon, and five planets. It also gave an account of a calendar, the phase of the moon and the time of eclipses.
To find out if the proposal worked, scientists from University College London used 3D computer models to reconstruct this device.”We believe that our reconstruction fits all the evidence that scientists have obtained from the extant remains to date.said Adam Wojcik, a materials scientist at UCL, in 2021.
The team of scientists built on the work of previous researchers and used various mathematical methods to make arrangements inside the gears that “replicate the movement of the sun, the moon and the planets correctly in the space of 25 millimeters of depth”, according to the outlet. Scientific Reports.
The researchers theorized that the results from the handheld device may have shown movements of the sun, moon and planets in concentric rings.
The trajectories were more difficult to reproduce with cogwheels 2000 years ago because the greeks assumed that the sun and planets revolved around the earth. Something different than if the sun had been placed in the center.
This research is close to how the Antikythera device worked, but scientists they were left with the uncertainty if the design is correct and how they came to create such a sophisticated tool, with little technology, that surpassed what was built a thousand years later.
However, the big unknown was the purpose of this tool: if it was a device to teach, a toy or any other type of function that would explain a little more regarding its rich culture.
It also concerned researchers in the sense that if the Greeks were capable of manufacturing this type of device, what other objects were they able to create with the limitations of the time and that had not yet been discovered by man.
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