Work on paper performed with different media on dusty paper.
Starrow is inspired by the mechanism of Antikythera, an astronomical device dated 100 b.C, while a study published in 2022 believes that the initial calibration is dated 23 December 178 BC.
It is believed to be the oldest known mechanical calculator. It was originally a sophisticated planetarium, moved by toothed wheels, which was used to calculate the rising of the sun, the phases of the moon, the movements of the five planets known at the time, the equinoxes, the months, the days of the week and – according to a published study on Nature – the dates of the Olympic games.
It was found in the wreck of Antikythera, among the remains of a shipwreck that has been discovered in the second quarter of the 1st century b.C. near the Greek island of the same name.
It is preserved in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
On May 17, 1902, upon closer examinations, it was discovered that what had initially appeared to be a stone was in fact a heavily encrusted and corroded mechanism, of which three main parts and dozens of smaller fragments had survived within the mechanism.
It contains a whole series of cogwheels, covered in inscriptions, forming part of an elaborate clockwork mechanism.
