Further to New clue in riddle regarding ancient computing machine? (Greeks could predict eclipses at an earlier stage than believed), biophysicist Kirk Durston writes to say,
Not sure they should assume that because the first eclipse it was programmed for was 205 BC that, therefore, it dates to around that time. If it were me building such a thing, I might want to program in a few previous, known eclipses to use as a way of calibrating, or re-calibrating, the tool.
Thoughts?
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