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The Antikythera Mechanism / Computer from ancient Greece

Nov 25, 2009
The ancient Greeks were responsible for such marvels as the catapult and the camera obscura. They invented the astrolabe, a forerunner of the sextant, which aided marine navigation by (among other things) measuring the angle between the horizon and the...

The Longitude Problem / Finding your way around the world with a watch

Nov 23, 2009
It’s the late 1700s and you’re on a ship that’s lost in the middle of the ocean—nothing but water from horizon to horizon, day after day. What’s your most valuable asset? Yes, of course, water and food, but I mean besides that. Would you believe…a...

Clepsydras / Watching time flow with water clocks

Nov 20, 2009
If you look up the term water clock in a certain online dictionary (which will remain nameless, though you can find it easily enough), you will find that the definition, in its entirety, is “A clepsydra.” (And you thought lexicographers didn’t have a...

Sleep Debt / Wake now, pay later

Nov 18, 2009
My life is full of contradictions, as is true for many of us. For example, if you asked me what my top five favorite things in life are, sleep would certainly be high on that list. I love to sleep—it’s not merely a necessity, it’s a joy. Circumstances...

Zeno's Paradoxes / Proof that motion unexists

Nov 16, 2009
Do you ever have one of those days when you just can’t seem to get yourself moving? Or maybe, no matter how hard you try to get caught up, you always seem to lag behind? I have those kinds of days all the time—and so, apparently, did ancient Greek...


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