Antikythera
Americannoun
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This sequence is ostensibly there to introduce the film’s MacGuffin, Archimedes Antikythera, a real celestial calculation machine with extraordinary predictive capabilities that in the film is bestowed with some otherworldly powers.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
The coast guard said Tuesday they had received a distress call on Monday from the boat while it was sailing between Crete and the small island of Antikythera.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
In response to Gilinsky: The Antikythera mechanism must indeed have been made with great precision for its time—it was perhaps not as accurate as a modern watch but very well made for ancient Greece.
From Scientific American ● May 5, 2022
The coast guard said 90 people — 52 men, 11 women and 27 children — were rescued overnight and early Friday from a rocky islet near the remote island of Antikythera.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 24, 2021
The other main goal of the 2017 expedition was to see if any other metal fragments that may have been part of the Antikythera Mechanism could be found.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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