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Richard Tracy

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Amazing article - great post.

There was a brief sequence on some History Channel show a few months ago about this machine. The actual show theme was about the library at Alexandria. They went through various inventions that were 'conceived' or at least documented in the that great library. One of the items was this calculator. Apparently, it was used to calculate distances, perform trigonometric additions for architectual purposes, astronomical calculations, etc.

Fascinating. It's a damn shame that Marcus Antoninus set that library ablaze to flush out Julius Ceasar. The world would've been ultra different if that blaze did not destroy 99.9% of the ancient canon of literature.

Cheers

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Only one device was found... maybe it was a prototype (and the ship sank so no more made!) or a very limited run. Highly collectible! :Jumpy:

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