CAS AR 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Analog Computer, Aeolipile, Antikythera Mechanism

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Ar202 lecture 22: alternative views of the past. What do they have in common: civilizations cannot develop independently, similar civilizations on different continents or planets, similarities imply a common origin. Infer a lost scientifically & technologically advanced technology (almost always the ancestors of the people who are making the claim: deny human ingenuity. Discovered that it consisted of many wheels & screw holes. It is an analog computer, well ahead of babbage device. Covered w/ greek inscriptions: instructions on how to use it, used for tracking movement of astronomical bodies & calculating lunar & solar eclipses, referred to in text. Hero of alexandria inventor of mechanical devices such as a self-playing organ & steam engine. Semir osmanagic: large stone sphere w/ iron content, occam"s razor: it"s a rock (concretion/geodes) Calc actually invented by archimedes, not isaac newton & the german.

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