| Title: |
The Antikythera Mechanism
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| Speaker: |
Tony Freeth |
| Date: |
Thu 12thDecember 2013 |
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Tue 17thMarch 2015 |
| Time: |
14:30 |
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17:30 Room open in advance (from 17:00) meet up with society members. |
| Location: |
Fellows Library of the Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2DD |
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The Conference Centre. Manchester Museum of Science and Industry, Liverpool Road, Manchester. M3 4FP |
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The Antikythera Mechanism
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About the seminar
The Antikythera Mechanism is a truly extraordinary geared astronomical calculating
machine from Hellenistic Greece.
What is it?
How did it work?
Where does it fit into the History of Technology.
How does it fit into the History of Computing?
About the speaker
Tony Freeth read pure mathematics at Cambridge; stayed for a postgraduate year for the
advanced "Part III Mathematics" (now a M Math degree);
and continued to Bristol where he completed a PhD in Mathematical Logic.
After training as a film director at the National Film & Television School,
he spent 25 years making TV and independent documentaries,
before being drawn back to science in 2000 via a TV documentary project
about the Antikythera Mechanism.
The Mechanism has been the focus of his work since then.
In 2012, he returned to filmmaking to produce,
"The 2,000 Year-Old Computer: Decoding the Antikythera Mechanism" (BBC Four)
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