Previous post December 15, 2024 at 9:45 AM by Dr. Drang A recent episode of the In Our Time podcast is about the Antikythera mechanism, which you’ve probably heard of. It’s a bronze device that dates back to the first century BCE and was found by divers on an ancient shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera in the early 1900s. It’s main purpose, as determined by slow study over the past hundred years, was to track the positions of the “planets,” which in its time were the Sun, Moon, Mercur...