Miscellany Extra!
Of Greeks and Balaclavas, Dreams and Patios, Doves and Bacon
Today, yes, a Miscellany Miscellany, a collection of the unconnected that demonstrates the extraordinary breadth of our remarkable existence:
The world’s oldest-known computer, the Antikythera Mechanism, made around 150BC, was discovered in a Roman shipwreck in the Aegean in1901. Research has revealed that it is Greek of origin, and is capable of mathema…
