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Rebuilt ancient device and tested it feels like the kind of thing that should really be peer reviewed and not just accepted at face value, doesn't it?
There's a guy on youtube- clickspring, who made a replica of it, and used a lot of homemade tools that could have been available in ancient Greece. I don't think he strived for 100% accuracy, but it definitely seemed like he put some thought into how such a device could have been built in the ancient world.
I'm certainly no archeologist, engineer, watchmaker, etc. but it left me feeling pretty convinced that such a device could be made to work with tools and techniques available at the time.
I think he had it spread out over about 12 main videos probably about 15 minutes each, give or take, so it's a bit of a time commitment to go through them all, but I found it pretty interesting.
That's why it's on a preprint server I assume
Of course. I mean why doesn't Gizmondo wait for the review to finish?
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