The Antikythera Mechanism

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)