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It is but it is precisely because a model within a model, in the sense that the structure of the model and its fidelity constraints (range of interpretations) can be interpreted with a computational model in a modern sense. You can say the same thing about a dam.
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Your orrery example is good because it brings up a more interesting question in the realm of modeling, which is the difference between algorithmic models and physical models such as for example drosophila melanogaster.
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I would say that the AM is both an algorithmic model and a physical model, and that it embodies (or instantiates) a mathematical theory of the cosmos. (In fact, it seems to have instantiated two theories: the Greek and the Babylonian cosmologies.)
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The Antikythera Mechanism could be used to predict events in the heavens. What does a dam predict?
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It predicts how much kg/m³ can be used without flooding. Weisberg's Simulation and Similarity has a very interesting analysis of this re San Francisco Bay Project.
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