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Good of you to remind us of Archimedes. However I think you missed a rather serious point. May I suggest that you look up the latest theories about the Antikithera Mechanism. This mechanism is hugely complicated and sophisticated - it was essentially the iPad of its time, a "pocket" mobile navigational computer. A number of serious archaelogists nowadays attribute this invention to Archimedes. Everything appears to fit this theory, the age of the mechanism, the complex technology involved, the projected location of origin, the Greek dialect used, etc.
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