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by turs0und 3881 days ago
"Thanks to an intricate series of gears and dials, the mechanism could be used as a calendar, to track the phases of the moon, and to predict eclipses."

That's pretty crazy. It would be really cool to understand more about how it was created/who created it.

Not sure if it's so much rewriting history as demonstrating the extent to which we've filled in the blanks with guesses.