{"id":6744,"date":"2008-07-31T08:29:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T08:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libtest\/2008\/07\/31\/antikythera_mechanism\/"},"modified":"2008-07-31T08:29:02","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T08:29:02","slug":"antikythera_mechanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/2008\/07\/31\/antikythera_mechanism\/","title":{"rendered":"Antikythera Mechanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Times&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discovering How Greeks Computed in 100 B.C.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Article Tools Sponsored By<br \/> By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD<br \/> Published: July 31, 2008<\/p>\n<p>After a closer examination of a surviving marvel of ancient Greek technology known as the Antikythera Mechanism, scientists have found that the device not only predicted solar eclipses but also organized the calendar in the four-year cycles of the Olympiad, forerunner of the modern Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/31\/science\/31computer.html?ex=1218081600&amp;en=913ac1b491a17253&amp;ei=5070&amp;emc=eta1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Subject Guides<\/b><br \/><a id=\"p.2x\" title=\"Classics Subject Guide\" href=\"http:\/\/guides.temple.edu\/classics\"><b>Classics<\/b><\/a><b> \/\/&nbsp;<\/b><a id=\"kgqd\" title=\"Islamic Studies Subject Guide\" href=\"http:\/\/guides.temple.edu\/islamicstudies\"><b>Islamic Studies<\/b><\/a><b> \/\/ <\/b><a id=\"ct5c\" title=\"Jewish Studies Subject Guide\" href=\"http:\/\/guides.temple.edu\/jewishstudies\"><b>Jewish Studies<\/b><\/a><b> \/\/ <\/b><a id=\"ovyo\" title=\"Philosophy Subject Guide\" href=\"http:\/\/guides.temple.edu\/philosophy\"><b>Philosophy<\/b><\/a><b> \/\/ <\/b><a id=\"prju\" title=\"Religion Subject Guide\" href=\"http:\/\/guides.temple.edu\/religion\"><b>Religion<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Times&#8230;. Discovering How Greeks Computed in 100 B.C. Article Tools Sponsored By By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD Published: July 31, 2008 After a closer examination of a surviving marvel of ancient Greek technology known as the Antikythera &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/2008\/07\/31\/antikythera_mechanism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-6744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-sciences","tag-classics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/805"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}