What the world's oldest calculator tells us about the ancient Greeks' view of the universe
Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 08:51
in Paleontology & Archaeology
When we talk of the history of computers, most of us will refer to the evolution of the modern digital desktop PC, charting the decades-long developments by the likes of Apple and Microsoft. What many don't consider, however, is that computers have been around much longer. In fact, they date back millennia, to a time when they were analogue creations.