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The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient Greek device recovered from a shipwreck near the island of Antikythera in 1901. Made of bronze gears, it is widely regarded as the earliest known analogue computer. By turning a handle, a user could predict the positions of the sun and moon and forecast eclipses. The intricate gearing far surpassed anything else from its era, and similar complexity did not reappear in surviving instruments for more than a thousand years.

The mechanism was discovered in a close to Antikythera. Built from gears, it allowed users to predict eclipses and the positions of the sun and .