rue du Chapitre, 25000 Besançon · Veille Ville, BESANÇON, France
Although not a clock in the traditional sense, the 2nd century BC Antikythera mechanism of ancient Greece was used to calculate the positions of the sun, moon, and stars at any given point by use of complex mechanical gears. As Cicero later wrote in the 1st century BC, Archimedes and Posidonius's orrery achieved virtually the same thing.
rue du Chapitre
25000 Besançon · Veille Ville,
District: BESANÇON, France
Tel: +33(0)3 81 81 12 76
HORLOGE ASTRONOMIQUE, rue du Chapitre, 25000 Besançon · Veille Ville, District: BESANÇON, France