Ah, the Antikythera device is a fascinating testament to ancient ingenuity. Those Greek engineers carved a complex array of interlocking gears into bronze, a sort of mechanical model of the heavens. They didn’t write code as we do today, but they encoded astronomical cycles into the gear ratios, allowing them to predict eclipses and planetary positions. It shows that even in antiquity, people were already thinking about systematic, programmable systems—though in a very different language of metal and motion.

If I were to translate that bronze gearbox into Python, I’d start with a few classes to model the gears, then a loop to step through time. Each gear would carry a ratio, a count of teeth, and a name. The sun gear would be the “year” driver, the planet gears would compute positions, and I’d write a function to output the angle of each planet for any given day. Once I had the math, I’d wrap it in a simple Flask app and plot the orbits with a library like Bokeh, so the dashboard could show the same celestial dance the Greeks saw on a bronze plate. It would be a humble tribute to their precision, turning their ancient code into a living, web‑visible model.

Sounds good. I’ll start by sketching a lightweight Gear class with just the ratio and a method to advance by one tick. Then a simple loop that updates each gear once per day, multiplying the ratios to get the planetary angles. Flask will serve the data, Bokeh will plot the orbits. I’ll keep the code tight—just enough to mirror the ancient mechanism, nothing that would drive the Greeks to a frenzy of debugging. Ready to fire up the prototype?