A modelmaker's work

30. July 2010 17:10

Michael Wright in his workshop

Just a quick post to let you know about a new web page dedicated to the Antikythera mechanism - in particular the work of curator and mechanic Michael Wright (pictured). He spent many years studying the surviving pieces of the Antikythera mechanism, and built a working model that is pretty much universally recognised as a work of genius in itself. Now physicist and science historian Fabio Soso has collected together various material including papers, talks and interviews. Wright doesn't have his own website, and sometimes his work doesn't get as much media coverage as other research on the mechanism, so Soso says he has created the web page to make sure that Wright gets full credit for everything that he has done. Highlights of the collection include a beautiful computer animation of the gearing inside the Antikythera mechanism, which I've written about here.)

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