According to an article in the current edition of Nature, the team led by the mathematician and filmmaker Tony Freeth of the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project, in Cardiff, Wales, have discovered the device not only predicted solar eclipses, but was used to organize the four-year cycles of the Olympiad, and the month names, inscribed on the device, “are unexpectedly of Corinthian origin,” which suggests “a heritage going back to Archimedes.”

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