Luise;
Absolutely astounding !!
Overwhelming !!
It took about 2000 years to find it, 110 years to work out what it was meant to do. One just can't help but wonder how long it took to make it.
They didn't say what it was made from, but I gather it is some kind of corrosion resistant metal. The manufacture and engineering of the wheels, and rest of the mechanism must have required extreme precision for that era.
John Harrison built his first clock in 1713, (20 years old), and was finally awarded his prize by the Board of Longitude in 1765 - 1773, (72 yrs - 80 yrs old). It took his whole life to finally be recognised, but it also took most of that time to eliminate the imprecision associated with seafaring, and the basic imprecision of the materials he had at the time.
And yet the Greeks who made this thing were working along similar lines (as far as goals were concerned), almost 800 years before him !
Truly awesome !!
Luise .. thank you so much for that contribution !!
It's made my day/week. Fantastic !
Cheers & Rgds
WOW How cool is that, wouldnt that be awsome to add to your lego collection 
