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Rhodes

A historic stone structure with domed roofs stands on a cliff overlooking the calm sea at sunset, showcasing the architectural beauty of Rhodes, a Greek island renowned for its astronomical significance during the Hellenistic period.

Greek island in the south-eastern Aegean, and in the Hellenistic period the most important centre of Mediterranean astronomy. Hipparchus worked there. Posidonius, who built his own celestial-motion device, taught there. The cargo on the Antikythera ship is consistent with a route that called at Rhodes, and most modern scholars believe the Mechanism was made on the island, by a workshop attached to one of these schools.

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