Antikythera

Antikythera (also as Antikythera, in Greek: Αντικύθηρα, Antikythira, < small>AFI: [a(n)di'ciθiɾa]) is a Greek island located south of the Peloponnese and northwest of Crete, with an extension of 20 km².

It has become especially known for finding there between 1900 and 1901, the so-called Antikythera mechanism, the oldest known mechanical computing system, dated between 100 and 200 BC. C. Such a mechanism is a set of bronze gears that allows the exact position of the stars in a solar calendar to be calculated like an astrolabe.

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