Antikythera Mechanism made of Legos

Two thousand years before Wayne Babbage’s difference engine, the Greeks built a mechanical computer to predict eclipses. Through the X-rays and other observations, a Lego replica was made to demonstrate. I wonder if there is some variation in its accuracy because the numbers/cycles are fixed numbers which I think reflects the Grecian mindset of the universe functioning through perfect circles/spheres. Kepler gets the credit for proving that celestial bodies tend to have elliptical orbits.

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