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Hipparchus of Rhodes
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Several lines of evidence point to Rhodes, the premier center of astronomical instrument-making in the Hellenistic world. Price concluded the Mechanism represented "an ancient Greek computer" and suggested it might have been built on Rhodes by followers of the astronomer Hipparchus around 87 BCE.
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The Antikythera Mechanism
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Alexander Jones
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National Archaeological Museum
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