Another article on it.
Box 1. Raised from the depths
From the following article:
In search of lost time
Jo Marchant
Nature 444, 534-538(30 November
2006)
doi:10.1038/444534a
Box*1 : In search of lost time : Nature
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Antikythera mechanism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
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It appears to be constructed upon theories of astronomy and mathematics developed by Greek astronomers and is estimated to have been made around 100 BC.
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Makes you wonder what else of the ancient world was lost with the burning of the library at Alexandria, which was not all that far away.
Library of Alexandria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria
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The famous burning of the Library of Alexandria, including the incalculable loss of ancient works, has become a symbol of the irretrievable loss of public knowledge.............................
During Caesar's Civil War, Julius Caesar was besieged at Alexandria in 48 BC. Many ancient sources describe Caesar setting fire to his own ships[21][22] and state that this fire spread to the library, destroying it.
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48-100 BC..................pretty close in date. Perhaps this device came from Alexandria before Antikythera (and then lost at sea).