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1. The Antikythera Mechanism

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   Influence and Legacy
   The absence of any demonstrated successor technology for over 1,200 years remains one of history's great enigmas. No mechanical devices of comparable complexity emerged until the development of medieval astrolabes and clockwork in the Islamic world and Europe. This gap has led some scholars to propose that the knowledge required to construct such mechanisms was deliberately suppressed by early Christian authorities who viewed precise astronomical prediction as theologically problematic.[7]
   Modern attempts to rec…