I just woke from a dream wherein I was desperately trying to stop this lecture from playing in my head. I fell asleep on another video and woke up with this guy's voice driving me crazy. In the dream I had dismantled three radios and a TV and trudged through mud and swamps with a shovel handle in my hand emanating this guy's voice to my old friend's house for help with my strange hallucination. His voice cut right through everything into my dream. I don't even know what he was saying but it drove me right out of my head in dreamland. Powerful droning voice he has. For the good or for the bad I don't know.

When my Dad died I inherited a watch that was one minute fast each day. I calculated that at the end of a month it would be 30min fast and after a year it would be 6hrs fast and that meant after 4years it would be one day fast, just like a leap year adding one day. I became fascinated with understanding calendar systems and the Antikythera mechanism and how to create a perfect calendar using modern technology. Of course I thought “why not make every day just one minute longer or shorter?!”. Of course that would lead to our clocks being 6hours out after one year and show midnight at noon after two years. It is incredible to attempt to fathom how the calendar was envisaged let alone could be perfected. I learnt a lot from this video. 🙏😎

What's amazing is there was a human alive at that time in history that could imagine and understand this device in his mind and was able to have a skilled metal worker build it. He had to be a genius on a level almost unimaginable today. How many people at that time in history were capable of understanding this information and make use of it.

It's disappointing to read all the nasty comments as well as the easy criticism by people who haven't done anything by sit on their asses their entire lives. Nicolaos Alexopoulos makes extremely valid points and provides hints to those who are willing to study these topics that subtend technological thought. Michael Wright spent 25 years reverse engineering this fabulous mechanism, a device that contains features that predate Kepler's understanding of celestial motion by more than 16 centuries. It took years for a group of foremost experts to piece this thing together and here we have proof that ancient Greeks had advanced technology that was to vanish off the face of civilisation for centuries. There are lessons to be learned here, one of which is that all that you take for granted, the advancement of your civilisation being one, it can all collapse. People who make noise and puff their chests about how great their nations are, should pause for a moment and reflect upon this: It could all go extinct in a relative flash. Another lesson is that the human mind - some human minds - is capable of reverse-engineering complex systems in the universe. Finally, it seems to me that the excess pride we have in believe the hegelian idea that reason progresses through history, leads us astray: The ancients were as advanced or more than we are, in some specific areas of knowledge, or in the way they organized their knowledge. Maybe 2000 years from now, most of what makes our pride today will be nothing but undecipherable ancient artifacts for future archeologists. Given the number of flat earth ignoramus and people incapable of connecting technique with philosophy roaming the face of the Earth, it would not surprise me.

Mr. Wright is one of those rare natural intellects. Smarter than some of my old profs, that's for sure.

I think this device is lost on so many. This device is so intricate in its design. The sum of all of the working parts coming together in perfect harmony. If you stop to think that if one cog or tooth is wrong, it all is for not. We may never know the true meaning of what this device could do but it's still magnificent if nothing more was ever learned about it.

Before anything I should mention that mr Wright was excluded from the team which some years ago decoded the Antikythera Mechanism... He, during this research, refused to provide data (x-rays, etc) of his own research. His resentment caused a brand new and unique x-ray machine to be constructed exactly for this task, which contributed the most into decoding this remarkable Mechanism. *We should probably thank him for this.* Now, Too many stereotypes even from the beggining of this presentation... "A misarable place to be, just a few sheep and annoying people..." Later Mr Wright as he presented a picture of the artifacts found in the shipwreck, he spoke about how you had to kick bits and pieces on the floor to get to the mechanism (which was never *ever* the case), but he forgot to mention that when this picture 20:33 was taken, Greece was either destroyed after the 1897 Greco-Turkish liberational war, or it was in war during the 1st Balkan wars (1912 - again liberational war), or again in war during the 2nd Balkan wars (right after the 1st one - again liberational war), or in WW1 (1914-18), or during the 2nd Greco-Turkish war (1918-1922 - a liberational war), or during the interwar period which found Greece completely devastated because Greece's allies during the 2nd Greco-Turkish war used it as a spear against the Turks but then left it alone to deal with them, OR it was during WW2 (Greece 1940-1945 - a liberational war) and yet they found the will to pack up burry each and every artifact in the Museums (a *titanic* task in a very short time) not to be found by the Germans or the Italian or the Bulgarian invaders (Greece suffered a tripple invasion and occupation during WW2), or during the Greek civil war (1945-1949) which the British imposed on Greece ............ and so, yes many things were *slightly disorganized* during these +50 years, but worry not bcoz the British looters were going around Greece filling their Museums with Greek artifacts in order to "preserve" them. Mr Wright also forgot to mention that the prestigeous and way ahead of its time British Museum, which looted the Parthenon Sculptures and refuses to this day to kindly give them back to Greece where they belong (arguing of them being "their property"), he *forgot to mention that around the same period when the picture he presente was takend, this prestigeous British Insitution BRUSHED with iron brushes the Parthenon Sculptures in order to ...clean them.* The world and societies progressed and some people need to overcome *their resentment* and avoid to use 18th and 19th century stereotypes for whole nations, stereotypes which muchmore even then werent true.

Very good talks. Thanks to all involved. I have been musing on the idea that the baked clay cuneiform Middle Eastern clay tablets will outlast our recorded media. I have followed the Antikythera device since before the internet. It boggles my mind that the device goes from a totally unknown to a working model of at least a part of the device. Very many thanks to all who have worked on the device.

Would it not be a complete mind **** that if time travel would become possible and a person was such a fan that he decided to take a copy of the mechanism back to Ancient Greece because you wanted to thank the man who invented the thing. Then, asking around, he was told that that the only man they believe could have constructed it lived on the other side of the country. So he gets on the boat, mechanism in hand, which wrecks. Then, just before his death, he goes pale as he looks down at his hands holding the mechanism, only to realize he was the one who brought the machine back as the boat sinks at the exact spot the original mechanism was found in the first place?…

This is a truly enjoyable cast of speakers. b&w tv under the pyramid. And the gentleman’s passion, curiosity and honesty that reconstructed the replica. Really really great! Thanks for posting.

Thank you Michael Wright. A humble and understated genius.

I'm happy to see this got re-posted. I watched it the other night, and wanted to share it with friends, but it had been pulled down the next day. Great bit of knowledge here.

totally awkward but absolutely knows his stuff A higher intellect that's totally patched into his subject with enthusiasm and an awkward willingness to share his knowledge. Thanks, chap

Thank you Mr. Michael Wright for putting in the time and giving us an explanation of your research.

17:57 “'That Ancient Greek thing'-he couldn’t say Antikythera.” ❤️

Absolutely wonderful! I loved every second of it! Couldn't get enough! Screw the negative comments. Those people have not spent time educating themselves on the subject matter or they'd be biting their tongues. Evidence that ancient knowledge of the heavens and known planets exists in the way of the tests of early grammar school students in early America! Most adults would fail those tests miserably today! Yet children knew it as common knowledge in the early years of this country! Ancient people often mimic things in the heavens laying out stone works in direct mirror to the heavens above. It is said the complete lay out of ley lines all over Europe was once simply a map of the heavens laid out on the ground so that people walking didn't even need to be able to see the stars to navigate they simply found the corresponding stone works on the ground and followed those stones representing the stars in the heaves because they knew what was above was below as above so below and so on! Again common knowledge.

eloquence is understanding the meaning of words so that you are precise in your pronouncements this man speaks so beautifully

A brilliant explanation. To have been denied advancement because his Head of Department was not interested in an exacting explanation in the form of the machine Antikythera. Wonderful Lecture. Perfect explanation and brilliant mind.

this video changed my life at this very moment

Whew...listening to Michael Wright's uhhh simultaneously, multi-trained thoughts that you can almost see banging around in his head was a bit of a challenge but overall this is Good stuff!

In one of Richard Feynman’s books, (Nobel prize winning physicist, and amazingly prescient person) he recalls visiting a museum in Greece with his wife, and while browsing through the great works of art, fine statues, and beautiful Urns, he came across a stunningly complex device. Fascinated, he asked more about it. It was so complex that he thought it might have been a fake !

As a mechanical engineer I am staggered at the Antikythera device. It's not about it's subtlety or precision. It's ALL of the technology needed to make it. They had to invent a lathe to make the circular plates BEFORE they could even cut gears in them. They had to invent a way to machine precise rods and tubes and probably bushes to hold them in place. And EVERYTHING had to be made really tiny so it didn't weigh a ton or take a steam engine to drive it. (Babidge's engine took a few HP to turn it...) And this bloke can't even find the right button to press on his hand-piece! I bet he just went down the shop and bought the bits of brass that he needed. I bet he didn't invent the technology to make the brass first! I'm just staggered...!

Great talk and reconstruction of the original device by Michael Wright (Dr?). My only gripe was the point about lack of subtlety of the device. I agree for a greek engineer, the device probably was not too complex but I think the complexity lies in the fact that someone brilliantly thought "how can I take this data from Babylonians, convert it into abstract planetary computations and then program it in a mechanical device". That is breathtaking.

I am quite old in this and returning from a long journey. I am thankful to revisit Mike Edmonds research during the 2020 American elections. I met this research prior to meeting Dr. Batchen, Dr. Mead, Barrow, Howe, Craven, et sum. University of New Mexico, M,A, in History of Photography.

Regarding the comment made at 1:40:44 about the Church preventing a film from being displayed in Spain. The movie "Agora", directed by Alejandro Amenabar, with Hypatia's character played by Rachel Weisz, was indeed displayed in the country. It was released in Spain before any other country in the world, except for the Cannes Film Festival in France and the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada. It had a box office of ~20M USD in Spain, being #1 in theatres for 4 weeks in a row in October/November 2009. This was an unexpected and surprisingly uninformed statement in an otherwise very interesting talk. It makes me wonder about the rigour of other statements made by the speaker.

Great video... looking forward to part 2. Fascinating talk!

Best gear ratio can also be: 2302 : 1440 and avoid prime numbers altogether, that is, count in half-days rather than full days!

Loving this lecture. So much knowledge to coordinate with more

nothing last forever, can you imagine how many devices similar to this must have come to pass but have been lost over millennia? I think technologies like this go back much much further however they have been reclaimed by earth and time

Very impressive research! Incredible to think that someone was able to put this together in ancient times.

Well done Michael Wright ! Fascinating presentation.

Incredible!!! Always amazed at people's garage and craftsmanship at it's highest levels. Just awsome!

The person in control of the cameras is infuriating, why are they focusing on the speaker when there's what he's talking about on the screen, zoom into the screen or put an overlay on out view.

19:40 Gears from the Greeks 1:17:56 Nicolaos 1:36:13 Archimedes inventor of integral calculus

I'm grateful for the YT transcript feature. Imperfect, as technology is, much like human beings.

To grasp the fabrication of this device within the objects timeframe is an enigma to textbook thinking. If you look into the minds of the “gifted” who grace our planet every so often you open the door to the realm of this computer’s engineering.

On another video about the AM, someone commented that the Roman empire was the cause of the dark ages... After listening to the guy at the end, I wholly agree.

11:30 “Jacques Cousteau didn’t find very much didn’t do very much” ?? He only found coins and artefacts that dated the clock accurately along with other artefacts that gave evidence of the journey of the vessel and it’s probable starting point.

Incredible lecture and fantastic machine for us all to wonder at.

OMG! this damn thing begins at 10mins in!

Would have been great to have seen the 1984 autocad screen shots in the video.

Yep difficult to listen to. BUT the key take away is that the technological minds and skills existed 2000 years ago … then unfortunately either got lost OR not distributed and applications of the technology (gear making for precision) took until almost 1000 years later. Excellent problem solving display

If anyone has any sway with the sponsor of this video (Autodesk), tell them that they need to bring back sales of single licenses rather than subscriptions - they are KILLING the little guys in the business.

If this mechanism had reached it’s destination, the world may well have been completely different. It may have been a one of a kind demonstration model.

Please forgive the pettiness of this comment, because Michael Wright is brilliant. I wish however he could get his speech under better control, a more relaxed enunciation. He is so bright he seems to be saying six things at once. Slow down and breathe, Professor! We have to listen to you for an hour.

These guys 2000 years ago could teach us....Thank zeus!

Aware of this before, really enjoyed hearing a detail lecture..!

0:00:00 John Hollar?? 0:03:20 Michael Hawley 0:04:20 Jonathan Knowles 0:09:35 Michael Hawley 0:14:38 Michael Wright

Many have raised the question about whether the AM was heliocentric or geocentric. In science, the difference between the two is a question of accuracy in predicting planetary locations, and up until Kepler, they were entirely equivalent. The man to put the quietus on geocentrism was not Copernicus, but Galileo, who observed the phases of Venus in his telescope, something geocentrism does not predict or explain, but heliocentrism does. The AM is geo-centered - that is, its viewpoint is of a person on the surface of the Earth looking up to the heavens. A human observing the motion of the planets cannot do that from the sun; the local climate forbids it. It's funny - the mechanism declares the heliocentric theory by using the movements of the planets around the sun to model the view; it doesn't use epicycles. Perhaps that was thought to be a "shortcut" by the designer, but it adopts the correct interpretation in any case. Inaccuracies in the mechanism arise from the incorrect planetary theory used which did not allow for Ptolemy's later equant refinement. Also, many of the things it tries to model (like the moon's elliptical orbit) are swamped by the inherent inaccuracies of the hand-built mechanism and triangular gear teeth.

Michael Wright is the right man, in the right profession, at the right time! He's brilliant. This is important information for our understanding of history and our relationship to it.

Does the CHM have an exhibit on the Antikythera mechanism yet? There wasn't one last time I visited and felt this was an omission. (Yes, I know they are closed during the pandemic.)

god bless algorithm, when i woke up, this was runnin ^^

@39:39 , 76 years also happens to be the average return time of Halley's comet.

1:26 Parthenon and amazing sculptures, unbelievable engineering

Knowledge belongs to humanity not to individuals

The good man probably reincarnated so he could explain it to us again

Michael Wright talks like my grandad does when he's been smashing the cocaine at the bingo.

My catch is that the instrument is an astrolabe to swifly calculate a chart, something that takes houres by hand and was constructed in ancient India where they already used gears made of bronze and sold to the Greeks, and was later ordered by a Roman astrologer. Furthermore, back then all scientists were astrologers first. Modern scientists don't want to acknowlegde that given fact but this went on into the middle ages and even Newton and his collegues in those days practised astrology.

Thank you for the presentation good sir ! ❤ Very informative and quite enthralling ❤

So, does anyone know anything more about Michael Wright's comment about not having been involved in the more sophisticated imaging of the device, and actually being excluded from access to the results? One would think that he having made a model of it already, that he would also be the ideal person to involve.

"History is a fable agreed upon".

A fascinating and charming look at one of the most amazing milestones of our knowledge of the Universe. Thank you. cheers from sunny Vienna, Scott

Tony Freeth provides a more up to date analysis of the mechanism and fills in the holes. He got the most up to date imaging data

The bigger mystery in my mind is what happened to the civilizations that created all of the technology in ancient times. Discovery after discovery tell us that the ancient civilizations from all points of the compass had advanced technology thousand of years ago. Then at some point it’s seems the board was reset, they disappeared with their technology and we all started over. What happened?

Not just used for Olympics, but for war... Dark nights bright nights when to attack or set up defences

Why did Jonathan come up to the stage wearing shorts like he's about to get on a log plume ride at Disneyland?

Is there a better video of these lectures. I'd like to see the images they are showing on the screen. It almost takes the excitement out of the video

I thought this series was about the mechanism. Seems to be a commercial for autodesk.

Michael Wright is a treasure! I love what he says about not hyping this too much because there's not much mystery as to why it wasn't done at the time, just that it WAS done then and that we lack evidence of anything of the sort for centuries afterwards. The knowledge was there, bronze was there, and e.g. Archimedes seems to have used gearing already. I like to think that the existence of this instrument is due to someone very much like Michael Wright back in the day: someone who was practical, and had access to the astronomical observations. Sadly Wright is treated as if he's marginal to the understanding of this, but he doesn't need to hype it since he knows he won't get more money from some institution.

Another illustration of the brilliance of the classical western world!

Wow, I never knew the manufacturers of my work software were researching such things. Very cool.

My favorite part is where he shows the video of the exploded view of the antikythera mechanism starting at 1 hour and 13 minutes.

Horrible recording of the presentation. Why do we need to see the speaker and him trying to use the device to advance the slides? Why not put up an entire slide for the viewer?

Totally fascinating!

You can’t help but wonder what lead up to this Intricate machine

For some reason, and I can't put my finger on it, but as I listened I kept waiting for Mr Wright to say “Good evening. I’m Doctor Emmett Brown and I’m standing here in the parking lot at Twin Pines Mall. It is Saturday morning, October 26, 1985, 1:18 A.M. and this is temporal experiment number one. Please note that Einstein’s clock is in precise synchronization with my control watch. Marty, Marty, Great Scott!"

Thinking with your hands and with your head means thinking in 3D. Very few people can do that.

Thank you AUTODESK.. YOU ARE AN AMAZING COMPANY

Overwhelmingly amazing❤

What other devices in this same “clockwork” manner have yet to be uncovered from this time period and earlier? Generally, I think it is safe to assume that most technological innovation stems from militaries. I wonder if there is some sort of bronze clockwork repeating crossbow lost somewhere in the Aegean? Reall

Very interesting. Greeks inventing while others still living in caves. Makes you wonder why some people were so advanced.

... great speaker, indeed ...

I would suggest the difference between Michael Wright's time and the time from your Iphone is the difference from the solar time at Michael Wright's home and GMT from your Iphone.

I don't think anyone understood his sense of humor. I laughed out loud a few times.

One only rarely has the opportunity to hear a genius display the working of his mind. That was what Mr. Wright was doing. His mild complaints about the device were merely his expression of his disappointment, in the same nature as the Greeks, at the lack of perfection. He denies the remarkable nature of the device because, TO HIM, so much of it seems elementary now. He has the good fortune to be the product of several thousand years of the reconstruction of the knowledge the ancients had, which was lost in the passage of time... and his own considerable genius.

This guy reminds me of the professor from the movie “Back to the future” I kept waiting for Michael J. Fox to pop up on stage at any moment 🤣🤣🤣

One turn of the knob equals 72 years makes me think it is a device for aligning megalithic structures. To send important messages through the ages

I can agree with almost all that Michael Wright has to say. My only point of contention is in the overall system accuracy he cites. In one of the papers about the AM, is is shown that if a Mars pointer is implemented as suggested (using eccentrics) the pointer can be as much as 23 degrees (!) off at the first and second stations of a Mars retrograde. It is to be emphasized that the cause of this is not the mechanics or the conversion of observation to mechanics, but in the model that the Greeks of that date used. There were discrepancies, most notably in the retrograde motion, which Ptolemy ironed out with his introduction of equants in the '''Almagest''' in 150 CE. That reduced the errors in computations (using either his or Copernicus' system) which could not be improved upon until Kepler introduced elliptical orbits. Wright is correct in his error estimates if he's comparing positions to the model used at the time, with its known errors compared to reality.

If the Antikythera Mechanism was so advanced, imagine what the Pro-Kythera version was!...

Genius in Antiquity Very impressive

That must have been the first time he presented this lecture. My goodness what a scramble.

if you divide year to 13 months, each month is exactly 28 days

I would have loved to have found this thing.

Is there a way to contact these researchers? I have found something that mentions and references this device in a historical text but it was working which means there could be a potentially fully functional one still in existence that's of the same age.

So interesting. I often wonder what the speakers are referring to in their presentations. Dear Editors, perhaps more of the slides and less of a person talking might be more informative.

An english version of this mechanism would predict how many "uhm" and "ehm" can a scientist say during a lecture.

Why do we assume than ancient romans or Greeks with the ability to build ships that large and navigate the oceans were not able or willing to collect what would have been ancient artefact's of their time themselves? By doing so we are also making assumptions that the people of that time didn't have the common-sense to plan ahead by building heavy objects in close proximity to the destination those objects were intended to be. Making such assumptions of sophisticated complex civilisations of the past seems ludicrous from my perspective. If we are interested in archaeology and ancient ruins and collecting ancient artefact's from around the world, are we not assuming that we are the only civilisation through history who found a value in doing such thing?? Making such assumptions sounds more so like we are blinded by our ego.

I still remember the day they came to take Acad off the machine and forced me to work on Terramodel software that none of the firms I delt with used, except one engineering firm that seemed to spend alot of time with the executive director and was a a software dealer for Terramodel. Long story short Terramodel is a pretty bad ass C.A.D. system but AutoCad is the unarguable leader.

Prof. Alexopoalas was fascinating. I loved the history! It spoke to my soul. My views of religion are so similar.

I'm curious as to how Archimedes determined where to position the slot displaying lunar apogee and perigee. Wouldn't he have needed an extremely accurate clock?