A copy of the “Antikythera Mechanism” at the University of Sonora in Mexico

A copy of the famous Antikythera mechanism has been adorning a square at the University of Sonora in Mexico. A unique copy that weighs about three tones and for the first time included the operation of the planets! A copy that promotes Greek culture and more widely people’s culture. Inspired by the whole idea, the “guard” would say, but also the mechanism scholar, in the younger years, a retired professor of physical space, the field of astrophysics, astronomy and engineering of the Department of Physics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The eminent Greek talks to Newsbeast about the whole effort he was successfully crowned, for the sake of the deep philhellenic feelings that the Mexican people feed on both Greek culture and the Greeks themselves. Mr Professors We would like to tell us how the initiative to create a copy of the Antikythera Mechanism at the University of Sonora at […]
Source: News Beast

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