Academic Writing Assignment

Name : M. Hafizh Ismail N.H.

Class : 4C
Student Number : 1212040109

Topic: Antikythera Mechanism

INTRODUCTION

It is no insightful sense if there was an apparatus that has the propensity to

calibrate, cast, and array astronomical archives and spectacles of yore. It is likely
antithetical to the nature of technology and science development nowadays that
the astronomical field of vision is easy to sight with abundant modern celestial
devices, but this one is odd as it exists in whilom.
Antikythera Mechanism keeps numerous spectacular miracles as a prodigy
appliance in time-honored significance. It allows primordial people to grant to
envisage and gauge stellar and astronomical advents. It is also made of myriad
scraps which is give a look as a contemporary device. Consequently, the appliance
is renowned as “Ancient Computer” due to its prowess and appearances.
This mechanical device is recognized comes from Ancient Greek. The
fragments of this mechanism, which are now on exhibit in the National
Archaeological Museum in Athens, were discovered in 1901 within the wreck of a
commerce ship that had gone down in the Mediterranean Sea in the first half of
the first century BCE close to the island of Antikythera. Current estimates place
the date of its creation at 100 BCE, give or take 30 years.
This object nowadays becomes a decisive and far-reaching worldwide
investigation regarding the enigma of its obscurity. The Antikythera Mechanism
Research Project (AMRP) is a global consortium that aims at uncovering the
unearthed mysteries of this astounding instrument by bringing together academics,
museum laborers, and cutting-edge technophiles. The Foundation's financing
aided the 2011 study and allowed for the evaluation of newly discovered proof
from the Antikythera shipwreck - a location that might hold vital information for
the project.
The entity is spectacular, yet it is also bizarre due to its no logical
capabilities regardless of linking it to synchronous space. Similar flairs at the time
are supposed to never exist or impossible to be real. But somehow, the thing still
keeps countless conundrums to solve; What are the materials it made of, how does
the object set off its functions, how is the mastermind thinking of the former
crafters and the folk human cultivation are still being inspected until now.

Keywords: Antikythera Mechanism, AMRP, Antikythera.

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