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The Antikythera Mechanism have been one enigma since it was discovered 100 years ago.
It have no counterpart and sports a mechanical clockwork so cunningly fashioned that archaeologists
have speculated for a century, especially since no other examples of a similar kind have been found.

With mechanical gears it could compute and display the movement of the Sun, the Moon, Venus and possibly also the other known planets, it could also predict the dates of future eclipses. Also the planets?

The Roman Cicero once wrote that the greek astronomer and philosopher Posidonius had made an instrument "which at each revolution reproduces the same motions of the Sun, the Moon and the five planets that take place in the heavens every day and night".

So its possible but not proven that the Antikythera mechanism originated at the ancient school for astronomy on Rhodos.

"In search of lost time" Antikythera Mechanism article, free access at Nature mag online.