The Antikythera mechanism: the gearing and the trade | Male Voice, Brook | History for Sleep

The Antikythera mechanism: the gearing and the trade | Male Voice, Brook | History for Sleep A quiet account of the Antikythera mechanism as an object made by people in a place: the strait between Cythera and Crete and the wind that funnels through it, the sponge divers from Symi who found the wreck in nineteen hundred, the hull and the mixed cargo it carried, the lump of corroded bronze that sat in Athens for months before anyone looked inside it, the wheels and the way their teeth were cut by hand, the front dial and the calendar ring, the pin and slot that reproduce the moon's uneven speed, the spirals on the back that count two hundred and twenty-three months and nineteen years, the small dial that counted athletic festivals, the sixth of the engraved text that survives and how it was read through solid metal, a bronze-worker's shop with its charcoal and files and emery, the dial and water-clock trade around it, the sea lane west past Cape Malea toward Italy, and what the sea kept. Narrated slowly by a male voice, over a brook. Sources for this episode: the published edition of the inscriptions by Alexander Jones, Yanis Bitsakis, Magdalini Anastasiou and colleagues of the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project; Tony Freeth and Mike Edmunds on the gearing and the eclipse prediction, and Freeth and colleagues' two thousand and twenty-one reconstruction of the front display; Derek de Solla Price, Gears from the Greeks; Alexander Jones, A Portable Cosmos; Michael Wright's papers on the mechanism and on ancient geared instruments; Cicero's De Natura Deorum and De Re Publica on the spheres of Posidonius and Archimedes; Vitruvius on dials and water-clocks; the excavation reports of the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities and the Return to Antikythera project under Brendan Foley and Theotokis Theodoulou; and Lionel Casson, Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World. History for sleep. 0:00 The channel off Antikythera 9:39 The sponge divers from Symi 18:43 The wreck and what was in it 29:56 A lump of bronze in Athens 41:31 The wheels and their teeth 52:38 The front dial 1:03:30 The moon's uneven speed 1:14:36 The dials on the back 1:24:51 The four-year games dial 1:36:17 The writing on the plates 1:47:35 A bronze-worker's shop 1:58:35 The instrument trade 2:09:46 The shipping lane to Italy 2:20:35 What the sea kept Narration is a synthetic voice. The pictures are AI-generated artistic impressions, not photographs or footage of the places described. The ambient sound is AI-generated. The sources for this episode are listed above. #MaleVoiceBrook #QuietHistory #HistoryForSleep #HistoryDocumentary #StoriesForSleep