{"id":18180,"date":"2021-03-14T08:55:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T08:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=18180"},"modified":"2021-03-14T08:56:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T08:56:28","slug":"the-first-computer-was-used-for-astronomical-calculations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2021\/03\/the-first-computer-was-used-for-astronomical-calculations\/","title":{"rendered":"The first computer was used for astronomical calculations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reconstruction of the Antikythera mechanism finally succeeded. It is based on pieces that were found on a Roman-era shipwreck in Greece in 1901 and is probably 2000 years old &#8212; a hand-powered device that is thought to have been used to predict eclipses and other astronomical events.<br \/>\nReference: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-021-84310-w#MOESM4\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-021-84310-w#MOESM4<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18181\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18181\" style=\"width: 373px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-021-84310-w\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18181 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Bildschirmfoto-2021-03-14-um-09.27.08-373x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"373\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Bildschirmfoto-2021-03-14-um-09.27.08-373x500.jpg 373w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Bildschirmfoto-2021-03-14-um-09.27.08-620x832.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Bildschirmfoto-2021-03-14-um-09.27.08-768x1031.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Bildschirmfoto-2021-03-14-um-09.27.08.jpg 1055w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 373px) 100vw, 373px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Video Screenshot 2021\/3\/14 , PROF TONY FREETH \/ UCL, Scientific Reports 2021\/3\/12 https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-021-84310-w<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 12.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reconstruction of the Antikythera mechanism finally succeeded. It is based on pieces that were found on a Roman-era shipwreck in Greece in 1901 and is probably 2000 years old &#8212; a hand-powered device that is thought to have been used to predict eclipses and other astronomical events. Reference: https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-021-84310-w#MOESM4 &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2021\/03\/the-first-computer-was-used-for-astronomical-calculations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The first computer was used for astronomical calculations<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-note-worthy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18183,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18180\/revisions\/18183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}