Greekreporter.com May 04, 2026 • 16:35

First Portable Eclipse Calculator Invented by Minoans Nearly 4,000 Years Ago - GreekReporter.com

By Dimitrios Aristopoulos

Minoans may have invented the first portable eclipse calculator, predating the Antikythera mechanism by over a millennium.

The Minoan moulds of Palaikastro may have been used to create the First Portable Eclipse Calculator. Credit: Olaf Tausch / CC BY 3.0
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