The real story of the “Dial of Destiny” from IndianaJones is actually more interesting than the one in the movie.
The historical facts are fascinating, if a lot less sensational than the ones in the film. Some have speculated that the real dial was created by Archimedes, but that’s just one theory among many about who created it, and where and why. Hence historians don’t call it Archimedes’ Dial; they refer to as the “Antikythera mechanism,” named after the Greek island near where the artifact was first discovered.
Instead of two intact halves that can be combined into a whole and switched on, the Antikythera mechanism, which is believed to date to around 200 BC, now exists in 82 different fragments — and there are more pieces thought to be missing. So even if you could get your hands on all of those pieces and reassemble it, you couldn’t just turn it on and start flying off in search of fissures in time.
A rotating black and silver ball showed the phase of the Moon. Inscriptions explained which stars rose and set on any particular date. There were also two dial systems on the back of the case, each with a pin that followed its own spiral groove, like the needle on a record player. One of these dials was a calendar. The other showed the timing of lunar and solar eclipses.
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