This is the kind of stuff that lends a glimpse of just how awesome humans can be. The pinnacle of ancient technology recreated with a child's construction set. Well done.
This is absolutely one of the coolest things I have ever seen dudes! I wish you could release this as a real lego set or at least the blueprints of it's lego awesomeness.
The Antikythera device was an analogue computer based on the earth centred universe, Aristotle's theory of the earth at the centre with the sun, moon, and planets rotating around the earth. The device would have been only relatively accurate over a small number of latitudes in the Mediterranean area. Outside these latitudes the accuracy of the device would have suffered. The Aristotle solar system model had epicycles and the creators of the Antikythera device used prime numbers for the gearing system to get a better accuracy of output. Either way it would have been hard to make this device in ancient Greece. Getting thin flat uniform sheets of bronze and cutting and generating the triangular gear teeth by filing must have been very arduous task back then. There were no clock or watchmakers around back then with precision tooling. The concentric drive shafts would have been hard to make so they would have run smoothly inside each other.
I "know" how it works. Kinda! I knew there would be a bunch of gears in it, but that differential got me by surprise. (And I knew LEGO had a diff.) (I know about the gearing, but figuring out the ratios is quite ingenious. I'm amazed!) steve
@1pete51 Absolutely. The Greeks made amazing devices, many of them powered by water or steam. Organs, lutes, novelty animated items, medical instruments. They were even able to remove cataracts from eyes back then.
+BELIEVE THIS Dinosaurs are more worthy of praise? They are incredible I'll grant you that but do you even understand what the word "Praise" means? In fact they deserve the opposite of praise because after more like 200 million years they accomplished nothing culturally. In all the time they had to evolve they never managed to evolve intelligence. Granted they never needed to but again it makes them incredible not praise worthy. As for the Antikythera Mechanism, I'm sure you've built one to understand how difficult it is even today right? Please dazzle us with images of your genius.
I think perhaps you should start by looking up the Bronze Age. You'll find that metals such as these were common long before this time. Metal devices were very common and smiths were quite good at making such things. A trip to the Römisch-Germanisches Museum In Köln would provide you with many examples of metal work that rivals anything we do today.
That is a terrible way of looking at yourself. Think of it this way, if you happen to crash land in that time with a special spaceship and you were one of the many members on that crew. Now imagine all you do is tap away at a tiny screen not unlike what you did here. They would worship you as gods. You also need to remembe that this is the era that when religious fanatics were being produced, sacrificing animal to clouds. I am sure that there is a drawback on every timeline.
This should be shown to all children. It would give them the incentive to focus thier minds on math and mechanics and problem solving. What an opportunity!
Nova did a program on how they found all the parts. They used quite a number of techniques to reveal many more gears and their number of teeth, then are apparent to the naked eye. Also knowing the astronomical periods the computer was calculating allowed some reverse engineering, Also they found other bit and pieces of it stored in different cabinets.
no geolocation, that would be hardcore to calculate the position of the eclipse only with gears. the machine tells you only when is the next solar or lunar eclipse
I saw this video 15 years ago or so.... It gave me goose bumps!... I just watched the Solar Eclipse on April 8, 2024.... and I'm watching the video again... HOLY GOOSE BUMPS!!! So impressive!
contained some kind of mechanism composed of many gears and wheels. Writing on the case indicated that it was made in 80 B.C., and many experts at first thought it was an astrolabe. An x-ray of the mechanism, however, revealed it to be far more complex, containing a sophisticated system of differential gears. Gearing of this complexity was not known to exist until 1575! It is still unknown who constructed this amazing instrument 2,000 years ago or how the technology was lost.
so where is the rest of the mechanism? like the other side of it with sun moon and 5 planets? thats a "replica" of only part of the mechanism. the eclipse part
I'm confused as to why the 2017 eclipse wasn't mentioned as the "next eclipse out from 2010". Was this a limit of the device or a choice of the video author?
I soooooo want to built this! I don't suppose you have instructions laying about? This should go on the Lego Ideas website and get itself approved and built into a set!
This video explained a lot to me. Over 2000 years ago it would appear a single mathematician, scientist, astrologist/astronomer, metallurgist, physicist and artist, all combined into one individual, used his/her combined skills to create a device so precise as to be awed in the day and into the 21st century. From inception to completion this device was a marvel of mixed sciences and arts. It may not have been in every Greeks home, but the device should serve as notice to "modern day" people.
Yeah. But that's a flaw of modern schooling, not a fault of the student. Greeks sure as heck didn't do things as they do today, and for their time, it certainly proves that scaled for today, we're fucking it up badly.
the best invention in the world of lego. for 2 reasons. 1. it's made by lego (which is litterally crazy) 2. it's an ancient thing and it is very important for our future. well, in the end i only can say: thats incredible. thumbs up
Seeing that the original mechanism had handcrafted gears which could have any number of teeth the maker needed and the lego's have a limited number of different teeth on the gears , how far is this off from the original mechanism? And how far was the original mechanism off from reality?
Goatse Johnson It doesn't matter about the pace it's wound at. It's not a clock, it's a primitive calculator that predicts eclipses. You can wind it forwards or backwards and it will tell you time of the next eclipse once you've wound it far enough. You could stop winding it and come back to it later and it would still work because the gear teeth are essentially doing the 'time steps' for you. Imagine it like a model solar system with just the Sun, Earth and Moon. But instead of actually building a model and checking when the Moon eclipses the Sun, it uses maths to simulate the model and when the dials line up correctly you know an eclipse will happen.
Goatse Johnson It wasn't about the speed, turning the dial to a particular position would would give a read out for that position, for example if you keep turning it to a particular date you will find out what happens on that date. Continue to turn it till it says that an eclipse will occur and boom you have your date of eclipse.
You learn that galileo said that the earth has globe shape at around 1600s. And the Greeks not only new that the earth has global shape, but also new about the exact size of its perimeter! They only new about gravity. The craziest of all is that they new about other planets and the exact locations of them! And all these before 2000-2300 years and 1700-1900 years before galileo and isaak newton... I wonder why the world doesn' t know and learn the truth..
That's not what Galileo is known for. It's a myth that anyone thought the Earth was flat before Galileo - the shape of the Earth was understood by the Greeks, and all through Medieval Europe, right into the Renaissance. Since the Antikythera Mechanism was made, nobody with a decent education has ever believed the Earth was flat. Galileo pioneered Copernican Heliocentrism, i.e. the fact that the Earth went around the Sun, rather than that the Sun goes around the Earth. Heliocentrism had been suggested in the Ancient world, but crucially there was no particular reason to believe that over Ptolemaic Geocentrism - the two models just didn't make meaningfully different predictions - until astronomers including Galileo started collecting new data in the Renaissance that supported heliocentrism over geocentrism. But again, that's a question of orbits, not the shape of the Earth.
This is truly an achievement for both history, science, and current technology. it brings together Science and Math. Such a simple machine can do such a wonderful thing like predicting a solar eclipse. Amazing. I am stunned at what i lost ancient computer can do... :O
For someone who doesn't own a single LEGO block, I come away wanting a PDF with full construction notes, and a website where I can buy every necessary piece. That's good advertising. The fact that these aren't present: that's a missed opportunity.
you should have expanded the math out completely, like all at once, for the whole device, as a series of fractions equaling another (so we could appreciate the elegance of how it was broken into steps)
@johmanscom The diff. was there to achieve a specific gear ratio, which otherwise isn't posible with normal lego gears. It isn't an exact 1 on 1 replica.
@johmanscom actually the original antikythera mechanism uses only gears as far as I know and has gears with a gear ratio 0f 5/19. With Lego you have gears with 8, 12, 24 teeth so its not that easy to get a 5/19 ratio. Therefore he uses the differential to combine ratios, so to say...
The real awe of this video is that the Greek could make these calculations of celestial happenings so long ago. While this Lego creation is pretty impressive, it's nothing more than a gearbox......not too hard to design or build.
It's not my intent to quibble, since I think we're both pretty much in agreement. However, the machine doesn't show "orbits" because it will make the planets backtrack, stop and reverse their position. It does show "movement" which is, as you agree, is relative to the Earth. In fact, that was one of the most obvious failings of the geocentric model...it didn't make any sense the planets would/could do that. Of course, there were good reasons for believing it in earlier times.
Coming back from the Antikythera Mechanism exhibition in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens I have to say that although this is quite an impressive work of "legomanship" it is much bigger than the estimated original one. Just pointing it out. Video, music and the lego idea is amazing.
I bet the actual clock was a lot smaller because they could make the gears exactly the right side they needed. The lego idea is good, but is there a non-lego version using non-standard gear sizes? Because I reckon that clock would have a lot less moving parts. Also how many years does it go up to? What if the batteries deplete and it turns slower, or is it mains-powered?
@charkz01 this is not a clock or something. you set the day you want to "request" and on the other side it outputs the result. Kinda like a big calculator
You're correct that the device wasn't functionally incorrect. But the Ptolemaic model, which the Greek maker of the mechanism undoubtedly adehered to, was a geocentric model. So in the maker's view, he was necessarily indicating the planets' actual orbits.
@Nintellignc Basically. The main interesting thing about this is that it shows that the Greeks could accurately describe the orbits of the sun and moon in mathematical terms and that they could create a complex analog computer that was not matched until the 19th century. If you're interested in analog computers, you should look up Charles Babbage.
This is the kind of stuff that lends a glimpse of just how awesome humans can be. The pinnacle of ancient technology recreated with a child's construction set. Well done.
Checking in on 8 April 2024, not bad at all!
I want this to be sold as a kit from Lego!!! So cool! (It would probably cost over $200)
ask them.... they might just do that.
I will actually buy this if it comes out as a working set. around 1500 pieces plus a few to make it more appealing or up the WAF.
@@mikkelbreiler8916 Yep, I’m in. Reckon we could crowdfund it?
I want a Lego kit like this so bad. I went into the Oakridge BC Lego store and asked them for it and they were baffled. This would be yugely popular.
This guy ought to submit it to the Lego Ideas.
This is absolutely one of the coolest things I have ever seen dudes! I wish you could release this as a real lego set or at least the blueprints of it's lego awesomeness.
This is amazing. The device is unbelievably cool, and the video is masterfully done. 5 stars.
Wow great 👍❤
Amazing! Absolutely genius. What an engineering marvel. And kudos to the people who recreated it!
Can confirm the April 2024 eclipse was pretty cool!
This is amazing! LEGO should sell pieces and instructions for mechanisms like this too, instead of just cars and robots.
Yeah, tap the adult market.
Not those weird man-boys
it would be so cool if they did but it's unlikely I think
I get goosebumps over how brilliant this is
Can I buy this in a Lego Set?
haha I would love to see the instructions
matsomo
behold! The very first 100+ pages lego instruction manual!
JarvanThe401st I have a technic dump truck from Lego with 498 pages of instructions. There are so many sets well over 400 pages from Lego
lol
I want one too.
The Antikythera device was an analogue computer based on the earth centred universe, Aristotle's theory of the earth at the centre with the sun, moon, and planets rotating around the earth. The device would have been only relatively accurate over a small number of latitudes in the Mediterranean area. Outside these latitudes the accuracy of the device would have suffered. The Aristotle solar system model had epicycles and the creators of the Antikythera device used prime numbers for the gearing system to get a better accuracy of output. Either way it would have been hard to make this device in ancient Greece. Getting thin flat uniform sheets of bronze and cutting and generating the triangular gear teeth by filing must have been very arduous task back then. There were no clock or watchmakers around back then with precision tooling. The concentric drive shafts would have been hard to make so they would have run smoothly inside each other.
Wow, that's incredible. Being able to produce something like this so accuratley is truly remarkable.
'accurately'... Just joshing :)
I swear, Legos are THE ultimate soft construction tool. ❤
Being on the exact date when this happens and rewatching this video to recheck its authenticity and its pitch perfect
This has been here for ten years yet there are still videos explaining that "nobody knows how it works."
I "know" how it works. Kinda!
I knew there would be a bunch of gears in it,
but that differential got me by surprise.
(And I knew LEGO had a diff.)
(I know about the gearing, but figuring out
the ratios is quite ingenious. I'm amazed!)
steve
There's still open debate about 'how it works' precisely.
For example: ua-cam.com/video/MkKgdq57uOo/v-deo.html
people know how it works, it does math using gears. what people don't know are the missing functions.
@1pete51 Absolutely. The Greeks made amazing devices, many of them powered by water or steam. Organs, lutes, novelty animated items, medical instruments. They were even able to remove cataracts from eyes back then.
This must have been built by geniuses, it's incredible what they were able to achieve 2000 years ago.
***** idk what you're implying
***** nahhh
Thank you Leonardo Da Vinci
+MultiSplish ......Why is that thing your profile pic....? What would your mother have to say about that if you told her???
+BELIEVE THIS Dinosaurs are more worthy of praise? They are incredible I'll grant you that but do you even understand what the word "Praise" means?
In fact they deserve the opposite of praise because after more like 200 million years they accomplished nothing culturally. In all the time they had to evolve they never managed to evolve intelligence. Granted they never needed to but again it makes them incredible not praise worthy.
As for the Antikythera Mechanism, I'm sure you've built one to understand how difficult it is even today right? Please dazzle us with images of your genius.
This video is almost as impressive a the device - beautifully made!
youtube academy award for best sound track goes to this video. AWESOMEEEEE
I think perhaps you should start by looking up the Bronze Age. You'll find that metals such as these were common long before this time. Metal devices were very common and smiths were quite good at making such things. A trip to the Römisch-Germanisches Museum In Köln would provide you with many examples of metal work that rivals anything we do today.
This video proves that people born over 2000 years ago were smarter than I am today. I'm actually pretty proud of that :) Go ancient people!
*We live in a sosiety.*
Looks like I'm not the only one people born 2000 years ago were smarter than.
Im sure the competition ain't too fierce. If you know what I mean
That is a terrible way of looking at yourself. Think of it this way, if you happen to crash land in that time with a special spaceship and you were one of the many members on that crew. Now imagine all you do is tap away at a tiny screen not unlike what you did here. They would worship you as gods. You also need to remembe that this is the era that when religious fanatics were being produced, sacrificing animal to clouds. I am sure that there is a drawback on every timeline.
@Maxim Milby the drawback to going back to that timeline is people would die from what we've come to see as easily treated diseases
This should be shown to all children. It would give them the incentive to focus thier minds on math and mechanics and problem solving. What an opportunity!
The Antikythera Mechanism replicated in Lego's, Amazing!
"Lego". There's no S
Company is called Lego they make Lego bricks there's no such thing as a lego's
Bunch of boombers...
Nova did a program on how they found all the parts. They used quite a number of techniques to reveal many more gears and their number of teeth, then are apparent to the naked eye. Also knowing the astronomical periods the computer was calculating allowed some reverse engineering, Also they found other bit and pieces of it stored in different cabinets.
Are the eclipses geo-located? i.e. can it work for anywhere on earth? If not, where was the mechanism made to function? Athens?
no geolocation, that would be hardcore to calculate the position of the eclipse only with gears. the machine tells you only when is the next solar or lunar eclipse
so the people who builded it understood that the earth was round and the eclipse wouldn't be visible everywhere?
Adinan obiously, the guys that build this shit were no other but smart as fuck. I bet that today in some garage there must be something like this.
Adinan Cenci The ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round so...
I have just read. Eratosthenes was born in 276 BC and the mechanism was created about 87 BC. that makes more sense to me
I saw this video 15 years ago or so.... It gave me goose bumps!... I just watched the Solar Eclipse on April 8, 2024.... and I'm watching the video again... HOLY GOOSE BUMPS!!! So impressive!
"Andrew Carol was able to build an Antikythera at home! With a box of LEGOs!"
"I'm not Andrew Carol!"
contained some kind of mechanism composed of many gears and wheels. Writing on the case indicated that it was made in 80 B.C., and many experts at first thought it was an astrolabe. An x-ray of the mechanism, however, revealed it to be far more complex, containing a sophisticated system of differential gears. Gearing of this complexity was not known to exist until 1575! It is still unknown who constructed this amazing instrument 2,000 years ago or how the technology was lost.
so where is the rest of the mechanism? like the other side of it with sun moon and 5 planets? thats a "replica" of only part of the mechanism. the eclipse part
I'm confused as to why the 2017 eclipse wasn't mentioned as the "next eclipse out from 2010". Was this a limit of the device or a choice of the video author?
I fucking love science.
The A.M. is, to me at least, one of if not THE most thought provoking relic from early civilization.
Fantastique !
Comment ils ont fait ça?!?
C'est malade ce machine et le vidéo est très bien fait
Tu calcules le temps avec les ratios
@@v12rodgaming47 what ratios?
Yea tech worship ! zombie turds of late capitalism zero craft all animation !
Great music, great movie.
Mechanism almost 3 times more gears than original.
The same functionality as original!
Congratulations to the builder!!!
WOW! I want to build this !!!!
Finally something not powered by electronics but by hand and yet blows me away!!! Amazing device. I need one now!!
Except yours is bigger and doesn't overlap on itself. They were REALLY smart
and only does part of the job
I soooooo want to built this! I don't suppose you have instructions laying about? This should go on the Lego Ideas website and get itself approved and built into a set!
The Solar Eclipse predicted is COMING!!! let's see if it's true!!
This video explained a lot to me. Over 2000 years ago it would appear a single mathematician, scientist, astrologist/astronomer, metallurgist, physicist and artist, all combined into one individual, used his/her combined skills to create a device so precise as to be awed in the day and into the 21st century. From inception to completion this device was a marvel of mixed sciences and arts. It may not have been in every Greeks home, but the device should serve as notice to "modern day" people.
whats the music?
Cool stuff ! The guy(s) who have built it were amazing.
And really neat video, well explained ! Great work !
Here are the instructions: rebrickable.com/mocs/WillPilgrim/antikythera-device
Beautifully shot, and impressive score! Thumbs up... Showed it to my Physics class today as a starter...
"If you miss a lesson in class you wont be able to understand a thing in the next one..."
Yeah. But that's a flaw of modern schooling, not a fault of the student. Greeks sure as heck didn't do things as they do today, and for their time, it certainly proves that scaled for today, we're fucking it up badly.
Fantastic indeed !
I love when humans do science like this.
I love this channel. Methodic and clean !
when you are half Greek and half Danish
Incredible.
Makes me wonder what else might have been lost
over the last 2000 years or is still undiscovered.
Time and space (future, past and the planet space) hurt my brain when thinking about it for longer than 3 minutes
Amazing! If Elon Mask came to the people who created this computer and told about space flights, they even would have created space rockets with him.
the best invention in the world of lego.
for 2 reasons.
1. it's made by lego (which is litterally crazy)
2. it's an ancient thing and it is very important for our future.
well, in the end i only can say: thats incredible.
thumbs up
Seeing that the original mechanism had handcrafted gears which could have any number of teeth the maker needed and the lego's have a limited number of different teeth on the gears , how far is this off from the original mechanism? And how far was the original mechanism off from reality?
How was it powered 2000 years ago?
alien magic
by turning the gears with your hand
Re How was it so accurate then? Humans couldn't really move it at a constant pace.
Goatse Johnson It doesn't matter about the pace it's wound at. It's not a clock, it's a primitive calculator that predicts eclipses. You can wind it forwards or backwards and it will tell you time of the next eclipse once you've wound it far enough. You could stop winding it and come back to it later and it would still work because the gear teeth are essentially doing the 'time steps' for you. Imagine it like a model solar system with just the Sun, Earth and Moon. But instead of actually building a model and checking when the Moon eclipses the Sun, it uses maths to simulate the model and when the dials line up correctly you know an eclipse will happen.
Goatse Johnson It wasn't about the speed, turning the dial to a particular position would would give a read out for that position, for example if you keep turning it to a particular date you will find out what happens on that date. Continue to turn it till it says that an eclipse will occur and boom you have your date of eclipse.
That would be deadly accurate if it corrected for nutation
You learn that galileo said that the earth has globe shape at around 1600s. And the Greeks not only new that the earth has global shape, but also new about the exact size of its perimeter! They only new about gravity. The craziest of all is that they new about other planets and the exact locations of them! And all these before 2000-2300 years and 1700-1900 years before galileo and isaak newton... I wonder why the world doesn' t know and learn the truth..
That's not what Galileo is known for. It's a myth that anyone thought the Earth was flat before Galileo - the shape of the Earth was understood by the Greeks, and all through Medieval Europe, right into the Renaissance. Since the Antikythera Mechanism was made, nobody with a decent education has ever believed the Earth was flat.
Galileo pioneered Copernican Heliocentrism, i.e. the fact that the Earth went around the Sun, rather than that the Sun goes around the Earth. Heliocentrism had been suggested in the Ancient world, but crucially there was no particular reason to believe that over Ptolemaic Geocentrism - the two models just didn't make meaningfully different predictions - until astronomers including Galileo started collecting new data in the Renaissance that supported heliocentrism over geocentrism. But again, that's a question of orbits, not the shape of the Earth.
Incredible! @Lego, if you're still paying attention, I'd buy this!
The universe is without purpose if man is not there to measure it.
Does it exist if we are not here to observe it? Sleep on it.
^ Yes
^ No
The Universe existed long before we came on the scene and will continue long after we're gone.
^ That one has already been answered correctly.
Andrew Carol creates a new kind of aesthetics with his LEGO machines. I enjoy this mix of construction, history, mathematics and astronomy very much!
for 179 people , teeth is only a property for living beings
This is truly an achievement for both history, science, and current technology. it brings together Science and Math. Such a simple machine can do such a wonderful thing like predicting a solar eclipse. Amazing. I am stunned at what i lost ancient computer can do... :O
Most dramatic video about a transmission i've ever seen...
Very very cool.
LEGO should release this as a kit - it's both a great educational tool and good PR for LEGO.
Dem Greeks.
Props on whoever did the stopmotion
So, what Lego set would be recommended for people who like to build stuff like this?
For someone who doesn't own a single LEGO block, I come away wanting a PDF with full construction notes, and a website where I can buy every necessary piece. That's good advertising.
The fact that these aren't present: that's a missed opportunity.
Imagine all what's left from our civilization was the replica they made out of Lego.
I keep seeing these amazing builds. But never a link of where I can buy a set of legos that would contain the pieces needed
I dont get it... "when the needles line up correctly..." what does correctly mean??
call me stupid, but how exactly do the needles have to line up, so that they predict an eclipse? How is the future eclipse indicated...?
Thanks!
That's a great reconstruction!! 1000 BRAVOS!
you should have expanded the math out completely, like all at once, for the whole device, as a series of fractions equaling another (so we could appreciate the elegance of how it was broken into steps)
@johmanscom The diff. was there to achieve a specific gear ratio, which otherwise isn't posible with normal lego gears. It isn't an exact 1 on 1 replica.
Awesome! It would be awesome if lego made a kit based on this!
So does it have to be done manually (Like a crank) or does work on its own accord, or what?
@johmanscom actually the original antikythera mechanism uses only gears as far as I know and has gears with a gear ratio 0f 5/19. With Lego you have gears with 8, 12, 24 teeth so its not that easy to get a 5/19 ratio. Therefore he uses the differential to combine ratios, so to say...
I would love to have this and put it together. It's amazing!
I'm in awe but wondering how to set the thing "on time".... Can you do that or do you start it when an eclips occurs?
@triftenC It's an original piece that the makers of this video commissioned for the clip. It's composed by Corey Wills.
Incredible! What programs did you use to model, render and animate this?
It's stop animation using real legos, not cgi, duh.
The real awe of this video is that the Greek could make these calculations of celestial happenings so long ago. While this Lego creation is pretty impressive, it's nothing more than a gearbox......not too hard to design or build.
IF anything, thank you to the Lego company to have the bit and to provide us such a presentation, well done. NatureVideo :)
3 years latter and this is still awesome
You learn something new every day. I had no idea Lego dated back so far!
This is awesome. More people should see this.
Very interesting, and excellent editing.
Wow!!! Incredible, congratulations!!
Execellent video of a great model!
I love the different camera angels.
Also watch the making of video.
It's not my intent to quibble, since I think we're both pretty much in agreement. However, the machine doesn't show "orbits" because it will make the planets backtrack, stop and reverse their position. It does show "movement" which is, as you agree, is relative to the Earth. In fact, that was one of the most obvious failings of the geocentric model...it didn't make any sense the planets would/could do that. Of course, there were good reasons for believing it in earlier times.
What is it powered by? A crank?
You guys are awesome. That ancient guy who invented the mechanism is the best. ^^
The music is:
Corey B Wills - The Great Machine
If you google the above he posted his song on soundcloud in mp3 format.
that's just astonishing.
considering they actually invented such a sophisticated thing so long ago leaves me with my mind blown.
Think about this; what are they gon come up with 5-10 years from now. Now, what did they have 5-10 years before this machine, 2k ago
Coming back from the Antikythera Mechanism exhibition in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens I have to say that although this is quite an impressive work of "legomanship" it is much bigger than the estimated original one. Just pointing it out. Video, music and the lego idea is amazing.
I bet the actual clock was a lot smaller because they could make the gears exactly the right side they needed. The lego idea is good, but is there a non-lego version using non-standard gear sizes? Because I reckon that clock would have a lot less moving parts.
Also how many years does it go up to? What if the batteries deplete and it turns slower, or is it mains-powered?
3.3 Million views and not one single Comment on the Date 2024-April..I find that very strange
@charkz01 this is not a clock or something. you set the day you want to "request" and on the other side it outputs the result. Kinda like a big calculator
You're correct that the device wasn't functionally incorrect. But the Ptolemaic model, which the Greek maker of the mechanism undoubtedly adehered to, was a geocentric model. So in the maker's view, he was necessarily indicating the planets' actual orbits.
@NatureVideoChannel Where could one find plans for this fantastic machine?
@Nintellignc
Basically.
The main interesting thing about this is that it shows that the Greeks could accurately describe the orbits of the sun and moon in mathematical terms and that they could create a complex analog computer that was not matched until the 19th century.
If you're interested in analog computers, you should look up Charles Babbage.
Thank you so much for making this wonderful video. And the music is terrific.