From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   It's actually not astonishing at all.   
      
   It's more complex than other machines from the period but   
   other machines, gearing are known.   
      
   Astronomical clocks are known in Europe from the 1300s, and   
   the Antikythera Mechanism is vastly LESS sophisticated.   
      
   It's unpowered -- believed to have operated by turning a crank --   
   and it of course lacked a clock.   
      
   The Antikythera Mechanism is NOT a computer. It does not   
   compute anything. You might as well insist that your door   
   knob is a computer as it effectively does the same thing: You   
   turn it and that results in mechanical motion, opening the door.   
      
   The Antikythera Mechanism is a wondrous device, on which   
   maggots misunderstand and misrepresent.   
      
   NOTE:  It doesn't even work!   
      
   All the so called "Reproductions" you can find -- just Google   
   it -- either add parts that don't exist or eliminate parts which   
   do.   
      
      
      
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