{"id":1119,"date":"2008-12-15T04:42:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T09:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2008-12-15T04:42:53","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T09:42:53","slug":"can-you-say-antikythera-three-times-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1119","title":{"rendered":"Can You Say &#039;Antikythera&#039; Three Times, Fast?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20026861.600-archimedes-and-the-2000yearold-computer--.html\">Archimedes and the 2000-year-old computer<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[I]n 212 BC, the Syracusans neglected their defences during a festival to the goddess Artemis, and the Romans finally breached the city walls. Marcellus wanted Archimedes alive, but it wasn&#8217;t to be. According to ancient historians, Archimedes was killed in the chaos; by one account a soldier ran him through with a sword as he was in the middle of a mathematical proof.<\/p>\n<p>One of Archimedes&#8217;s creations was saved, though. The general took back to Rome a mechanical bronze sphere that showed the motions of the sun, moon and planets as seen from Earth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archimedes and the 2000-year-old computer [I]n 212 BC, the Syracusans neglected their defences during a festival to the goddess Artemis, and the Romans finally breached the city walls. Marcellus wanted Archimedes alive, but it wasn&#8217;t to be. According to ancient &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1119\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,39,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-physics","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}