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Long read.

Why doesn't someone just 3D print a new one of these mechanisms to verify how it works and what it does? Certainly not exactly easy, but I bet it could be done.

Amazing that the word "Astrology" is not used once in the entire article, despite that being the purpose of this device as well as the conceptual driver between many of the cycles being tracked.

I saw a show about this thing on TV. They built a virtual version of it. There was an ingenious little set up that allowed it to track the moons odd motion. I’m surprised the builder didn’t etch his name on it somewhere… smart m f’er.

Wrong wrong wrong. Mere speculation.

My 3-D rebuild, when completed, is a Roomba. Didn't understand this until I dropped it and it cleaned the floor in my laboratory.

Yes, the most likely course of events is for this relatively obscure piece of information to travel thousands of miles over hundreds of years from Mesopotamia to Greece over land. Greeks definitely didn't just observe on their own and come to the same realization, except they recorded it on papyrus, which results in no surviving record.

I fucking hate archeologists. Professional bullshit artists. They take 1/1,000,000th of the total picture and draw absurd conclusions. They are the ones that saddled us with "Out of Africa" theory.