Can someone tell me about the Greek computer from 150 to 150 B.C?

Question

I saw a show of it on the History but didn't see all.

The thing that confused me was that: It talked about this computer found in a ship reck. Then it talked about Alexander the Great which I don't no why. Then it started to talk about the library(don't no the name).

Antikythera mechanism

Answer 1

Think of a computing device, a mathematical one, like the abacus. Not the software+hardware thingy we know as computers today.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient mechanical calculator (also described as the first "mechanical computer" designed to calculate astronomical positions.

It was discovered in the Antikythera wreck off the Greek island of Antikythera, between Kythera and Crete, in 1900. Subsequent investigation, particularly in 2006, dated it to about 150–100 BC, and hypothesised that it was on board a ship that sank en route from the Greek island of Rhodes to Rome, perhaps as part of an official loot. Technological artifacts of similar complexity did not reappear until a thousand years later.

The mechanism is the oldest known complex scientific instrument. It has several accurate scales, and is essentially an analog computer made with gears. It is based on theories of astronomy and mathematics developed by Persian and Egyptian astronomers.

Based on the shape of the Egyptian letters used in the manual of the instrument, it is estimated that it was constructed around 150 to 100 BC. The circumstances under which it came to be on the cargo ship are unclear.

The ship is estimated to have sunk between 80 to 60 BC and was a Roman or Greek ship with cargo for Rome, perhaps part of official loot. It contained more than 100 statues similar to the ones the Romans took to Italy after their conquest of Greece. Consensus among scholars is that the mechanism itself was made in Greece. All the instructions of the mechanism are written in Greek.