The fabulous machine of Antikytera

This machine of Anticytera couldn’t help astonishing us. Its device is so complex that immediately after its discovery some imaginative people thought the machine has been made by alien. Today the watchmaker firm Hublot dedicates a watch in a special tribute to the genious greek mathematician who created the first mechanical computer. The plagiarism of the first greek mechanical calculator The discovery of mechanical arab astrolabs by the english archeologists entails that some of them has imagined thet the arabs legends could have one hint of reality, ignoring the fact that the mathematical background was Greek. They forgot the fake news generated by the arabs shopkeepers in order to make increase artificially the prize of incens by telling fantastic reports where the son of the shopkeeper would have climbed huge mountains, wrestled with fierce beasts, and run in a deserted country to find the precious material. The recent discovery of a machanical calculator in the sea in a area very close to the island of Antikytera, created by Greeks following the works of Geminos or Hipparcos, and older than all the arab mechanical astrolabs has completely erased the myth of a ancient glorious arab civilization that only propagandists continues falsely to assert. The machine of Antikytera possess a very complicated network of gearwheel that the machine is still studying today in order to know how it works, when the arabs astrolabs copying a small part of its complexity are simplier and easy to understand. The production of gearwheels formed a noticeable industrial activity in the Roman Greece and was at the origin of the first automatic machine created by Jews and byzantine Romans in Sicilia. The arab’s legends Masses of sites saying that Arabs has everything invented flourish on the web, saying that they were influenced by spirits or surnatural entities, the djinns, only existing in the world of dreams. Many people has reacted to this false stories or fake news[1]. Don’t forget the character of the arab population prone to create imaginary stories like «The Sherazad stories about 1001 nights». So they imagined they would have been the first to create a plane. In reality, a tipsy redneck falling from a tower opened his coat and has imagined he could fly like a base jumper do it today. Unfortunately for this poor guy, his technique was not good enough and he died when he hit the ground. But the arab’s legends continues to talk about a «flying coat» and «miracle» like they did for «flying carpets» ! Let us give to Caesar back what belong to Caesar. Let us notice like an important giving to science by the Arabs the non-scientific character of astrology and the construction in Persia of the first astronomy observatories. The myth of the Golden Age of Al-Andalous Some writers, like Ibn Warracq [2] (page 291), evoked the myth of the Golden Age of Al- Andalous, and according to him this myth was created during Middle Age by Hebrews in order to underline the poor conditions of living in Spain after the Reconquista. It was in order to forget that the Jewish has been complied to convert to islam or to wear a small yellow circle on their jackets, genuine ancestor of the yellow David Star (imposed by nazis during the second world war). It was a manner to reach the oblivion of all the persecutions that muslims imposed to non-muslims [2], what they called dhimmis, meaning slaves. During the Reconquista, Hebrews settled in North Africa and imagined a mythic world, heaven for spirit towards the repression of the Spanish people (and Inquisition) who convert them by force threatening with torture or death penalty if they don’t. The transmission of the greek knowledge towards the West by the byzantinian Romans monks who translates it The intellectuel Arab from Gaza Saqr Abou Fakhr [3] refute the fact that the West could not have access to knowledge without Averroès and Ibn Khaldoun. He assert that «the main part of nationalists arab writers and muslims novellists continues to maintain the idea of a glorious old arab civilization». The idea that the Arabs have transmitted the Greek and Roman knowledge to the West has been completely denied by serious studies [4]. It’s the Roman byzantine monks returning from Constantinopolis who really have transmitted the antique knowledge to the West. The Arabs only translated from Greek to Arab and thought falsely that knowledge give power and their aim was to appropriate the power of other people. See Also Algorismus (Al-khwarizmi) a well-known translator References [1] Forum kabyle, http://www.kabyle.com/forum/non-les-arabes-nont-pas-invente-lalgebre [2] Ibn Warracq, Pourquoi je ne suis pas musulman, L’Age d’Homme, 1999 [3] Saqr Abou Fakhr, Non, l’Occident ne doit rien aux Arabes, Le Courrier International, 29 juillet 2004, http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/2004/07/29/non-l-occident-ne-doit-rien-auxarabes [4] Sylvain Gougenheim, Aristote au Mont-Saint-Michel, Seuil, Collection L’Univers Historique, 2008