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How ancient gears tracked the Moon and predicted eclipses

Divers found pieces of a roughly 2,000-year-old bronze machine in a Greek shipwreck. Its gears helped track the Moon and predict eclipses, when one object in space blocks another's light. Turning a handle moved pointers.

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Source: ucl.ac.uk

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