Greek shipwreck's 2,000-year-old device was built to predict eclipses

In 1990 Greek sponge divers found a shipwreck off Antikythera island, between Crete and the Peloponnese, where they recovered a corroded bronze object later identified as the Antikythera Mechanism, a 2,000‑year‑old device with at least 30 gears capable of calculating astronomical cycles and predicting solar and lunar eclipses.

Source: Greek shipwreck's 2,000-year-old device was built to predict eclipses — Times of India

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