Computing devices and cosmological principles

Openkov Mikhail Yurievich, Tetenkov Nikolai Borisovich

The article is devoted to computing devices as a way to visualize the Universe. Such a computing device is the Antikythera mechanism, which was created in the era when the first attempts were made to explain and mathematically describe the structure of the Universe. The authors of the article suggest that the Creator of the Antikythera mechanism is Posidonius from Rhodes. The creation of the Antikythera mechanism changes our idea of ancient technology: traditionally, ancient technology is treated as primitive, but, as the Antikythera mechanism shows, this idea is false. On the basis of cosmological principles, Lullius creates a logical machine for theological purposes.

Keywords:computing devices, cosmological principles, antikytherian mechanism, Hipparchus, Posidonius, Lullius, Leibniz