天球仪

自动回转式天球仪是一个相对较小的装置，

The Antikythera Mechanism is a relatively small device ,

现在，要弄清楚天球仪是一个挑战。

Now , it was a challenge to figure out the Antikythera Mechanism .

所以我想要讲一下自动回转式天球仪的发现。

So I want to talk about the discovery of the Antikythera Mechanism .

可以说天球仪是一个十分精确的日历，

You could say that the Antikythera Mechanism was a very precise calendar ,

天球仪还能够显示出农历和公历。

The Antikythera Mechanism also tracked both the lunar year and the solar year .

令人感到惊讶的是在天球仪之前，人们知道的最早的能够测算太阳和约球轨道的仪器是在此以后的1000年才发明的。

the earliest device we had that could track the Sun and moon like this was invented over 1000 years later .

自动回转式天球仪是在一百年前在地中海的一艘古希腊的沉船的残骸中发现的。

The Antikythera Mechanism was found a hundred years ago , under water in an ancient Greek shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea .

他的房间中，还有一些ζ函数机的零件，跟他的天球仪和克里斯朵夫当年的图画放在一起。

The suitcase with the parts for the zeta-function machine was still in his room , along with the star globe and Christopher 's picture .

显示的内容，也就是天球仪的指示器会转动并显示出太阳、月亮和行星的运行。

The displays , uh , the indicators of the Antikythera Mechanism , would then moved to show the motion of the Sun and moon relative to the planets and stars .

中国古人很早就会制造这种仪器，它可以用来直观、形象地了解日、月、星辰的相互位置和运动规律，可以说天体仪是现代天球仪的直接祖先。

The ancient Chinese people learned to make this instrument a long time ago ， and used it to pinpoint the position of the sun ， the moon ， and the stars with respect to each other and to know their movement . The celestial globe is seen as the ancestor of the modern celestial globe .