[elkos]

I'm Greek, I've been to the National museum of Athens several times and love the mechanism, the replication attemps, etc Clickspring though has actually made me understand and feel the challenges to build that thing. My personal view (please take it with a tablespoon of salt) is that Clickspring has made further contributions in understanding the underlying technological challenges than many academic papers and diatribes have done.

[ThrowawayTestr]

I mean he's literally an author on a paper about the mechanism.

[elkos]

I have to admit that my grievances were mostly about Greek academics.