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Not strictly a clock: model of the Antikythera Mechanism
William Hill isn’t accepting bets on our once again confusing the change in Greek Daylight Saving Time at 4am tomorrow morning, Sunday October 25, when clocks here, as elsewhere in Europe, will go back by one hour to 3am. As ever, it will produce lighter mornings but darker evenings.
At least, we think it will.
Our thanks to Wiki Commons contributor Mogi Vicentini for permission to use the image of a working model of the marvellous early (205 BCE) Greek laptop the Antikythera Mechanism, which now has its own gallery at the Archaeological Museum in Athens.
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