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Re-order Paragraphs
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Re-order Paragraphs
Arrange the sentences into a logical order.
Put the sentences in the correct order:
- As a result, it is now widely regarded as the earliest known analog computer, built more than two thousand years ago.
- The scans revealed that the device was an astonishing astronomical calculator, able to predict eclipses and track the movements of the planets.
- This changed in the 2000s, when teams used high-resolution X-ray tomography to map the hidden teeth and inscriptions layer by layer.
- Early scholars could see that it contained interlocking cogs, yet they had no way to peer inside the fused, encrusted fragments.
- The Antikythera mechanism, a corroded lump of bronze gears recovered from a Roman-era shipwreck in 1901, baffled researchers for decades.