The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

Although the Antikythera Mechanism is a well-known archaeological ... theories of famous Greek mathematicians such as Hipparchus or Archimedes have been bandied about. Today, this incredible ...

From the time it was fished out from the colossal depths of the seas near Antikythera ... of the mechanism being somewhat dating back to the days of the famous scholar Archimedes.

And yet, they built. Granted, not every artifact was as complex as the Antikythera mechanism, but still, this ancient astronomical computer exists, and must have come from someone’s workshop.