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Then there's continental drift, which as Indiana Jones reminded us this past summer, Archimedes didn't know about when he built his time machine.
Pet peeve: brushing aside the time travel fantasy element, there is not a single shred of evidence of any type of connection between Archimedes and the Antikythera Mechanism.
As if the only person clever enough in Ancient Greece was that one famous dude from Syracuse.
Ionians: "Are we a joke to you?"