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The device also predicted and tracked the planets movements and positions. This note of function of the device was added to page and source below was cited.

Bibliography notes
Journal of Archaeology

Volume 2016 (2016), Article ID 8760513, 19 pages

http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/8760513 Research Article

Antikythera Mechanism and the Ancient World
A. N. Safronov1,2

The earliest recorded account of any such device in antiquity can be found in the writings of Cicero (Cicero, M.T. De Re Publica p.41); in which he describes a globe, created by Archimedes of Syracuse, which included the sun, moon and known planets, and was able to, through a system of gears and dials, too show the positions of the planets in the night sky and predict the phases of the moon. While this device described as a globe in Cicero's account does not precisely match the description of the Antikythera device itself, it does exhibit the same function and should be considered an earlier working model of the device (much akin to a laptop being a later model of the first desktop/home PC). This device so impressed Cicero that he said of its inventor, "the famous Sicilian had been endowed with greater genius than one would imagine it possible for a human being to possess." (Cicero, M.T. De Re Publica p. 41)Jgabe (talk) 16:30, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

Significance and Application
Cicero records an account of such a device being used to show that an eclipse not only occurred at fixed times, but that those times could be predicted. This significance is further rooted out in his same account when he tells of a story of the Athenian War in which an eclipse came about during battle and while the common soldiers were all a panic, Pericles (the leader), by use of knowledge gleaned from such a device was able to waylay the panic by explaining that this was not witchcraft or a bad omen, rather just the normal movement of the moon across the fixed sun. If knowledge is truly equated to power, then one who could master the movements of the cosmos could easily position themselves as being at the pinnacle of power in ancient times.

The technological significance alone of this device is astonishing. Prior to this device, the differentiated gear used in its design wasn't thought to of been used in an type of known production until it was use in Great Britain in the 18th century for use in specialized clock gears. Sine the most conservative estimates of the age of this device place it over a century BCE, just the use of such a differentiated gear has enormous application as to what we think we know of the advances of ancient technology.Jgabe (talk) 15:15, 13 April 2018 (UTC)