Within the work that our students have posted on their blog are those that refer to aspects of the geometry of antiquity dating. The interest in the technical aspects of difficult explanation is reflected in articles like the one with one of the most interesting mysteries: the Antikythera mechanism (Antikythera).
Although their study comes mainly in the fields of mechanics and celestial navigation, its geometric base can serve as a stimulus for teaching of graphic expression, the study of tangency and transformations.
An interesting topic to explore as a teaching resource. As you can read the entry below was made by students, I give you a challenge: Are you able to simulate your mechanism with LEGO bricks?
by AG Los trapezoids
The Antikythera mechanism is a device that is believed to be a primitive mechanical device.
It was discovered in the remains of a shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera, between Kythera and Crete, and is believed to date from 87 A.C.
This would be the first known gear mechanism, and have been designed to follow the movement of the heavenly bodies.
According to reconstructions made, would be a mechanism that uses differential gear, which is surprising since the first cases were previously known sixteenth century. Therefore it is usually considered as a oopart (see definition in Wikipedia).
According to the initial studies conducted by Derek Price, historian at Yale University, The device was a astronomical computer able to predict the positions of the Sun and Moon in the zodiac, although subsequent studies suggest that the device was much more "intelligent".
Using linear tomography techniques, Michael Wright, mechanical engineering specialist London Science Museum, has conducted a new study of the artifact. Wright found evidence that the mechanism could Antikythera reproduce the movements of the Sun and the Moon exactly, using an epicyclic model devised by Hipparchus, and planets like Mercury and Venus, empleando ecliptic model derived by Apollonius of Perga.
However, it is suspected that part of the mechanism could be lost, and that these extra gears could have been modeled movements three planets known at the time: Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Namely, the device might have been able to predict, a respectable degree of certainty, the positions of all celestial bodies known at the time.
Source: Altaya
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