GRST 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Antikythera Mechanism, Solar Phenomena, Fertile Crescent
20 Oct 2017
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Antikythera mechanism: recovered from a shipwreck in 1910. Seems to be a very complex geared system of wheels that represent calendars. (lunar, solar, predicts eclipses and other solar phenomena. ) Phenomenal, astronomical calendar as a system of wheels and gears. Seems to trace the paths of plants too: sometimes referred to as the first analog computer because it can make very fine computations. Alexandria: town where hero the guy who wrote a lot about machines and things built in this time lived. Not much victorian evidence of agriculture, but there are a few cave paintings or decorations of pottery that indicate domesticated animals and plants. Agriculture started in the neolithic age and come to a high point within the bronze age. Certain areas seem to have been particularly suitable for agriculture. The natural conditions of the fertile crescent made agriculture particularly good in this area. Pictorial evidence of agriculture in tomb paintings from egypt.
