Bruce Sterling @brucesThe Clickspring guy points out that there are no "absolute measurements" in his work. For years now, he's been hand-building an ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism just to eyeballing it
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Aaron Sawdey, Ph.D.@bruces I mean inasmuch as the device is basically a geometric proof made out of brass, that makes sense. You only need relative measurements for that thing. It'll work the same way no matter the scale factor.