A critical reflection on the Antikythera Mechanism from an idealist perspective and its implications on technological development as a means of understanding our Cosmos
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Metyper.2023.vi30.17373Keywords:
Antikythera mechanism, epistemology, methodology, idealism, Collingwood, minimum space, minimum time, Parmenides proposition, metaphysics, astronomy, Theodore of Smyrna, Thinking and BeingAbstract
Technology can be an insight into how humanities’ needs have changed along the centuries and how science has been applied in order to solve these conundrums, to make the world our own and understand it to learn about what surrounds, what is true, and what is unchangeable. The Antikythera Mechanism’s complexity and recent discoveries allow the academy to know its functions and how exact it was, as a new model has been proposed that shows that it was a device to unravel one of the biggest mysteries of antiquity: The Cosmos and the Stars. Along with the help of the perspective of Collingwood’s sense II and sense III, this paper aims to define and analyse the epistemological and methodological significance of the Antikythera Mechanism, by looking into what is says about the old world and how it contrasts with the new.
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