The #Antikythera Mechanism Episode 11 - Inscribing The Back Plate - Part 1
Hi Folks,
Pack your sandals for the #Hellenistic world, and be sure to bring the translator! We're off to learn about the Metonic calendar...
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Cheers,
Chris.
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References:
http://hist.science.online.fr/antikythera/DOCS/Bulletin%20SIS%20December%202005%20Counting.pdf - Counting Months and Years: The Upper Back Dial of the Antikythera Mechanism1 M.T. Wright 2005
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20191159 - "IG" XII, 1 913: An Astronomical Inscription from Hellenistic Rhodes - Alexander Jones 2006
https://www.sciamvs.org/files/SCIAMVS_07_003-041_Jones.pdf The Keskintos Astronomical Inscription Text and Interpretations - Alexander Jones 2006
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature07130 - Calendars with Olympiad display and eclipse
prediction on the Antikythera Mechanism - Freeth et al 2008
https://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/atzioumi/Antikythera2012/presentations/X-ray_Tomography-Ramsey.pdf X-ray Tomography of the Antikythera Mechanism - Andrew Ramsey 2012
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00407-014-0145-5 On the epoch of the Antikythera mechanism and its eclipse predictor - Carman & Evans 2014
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0103275 Eclipse Prediction on the Ancient Greek Astronomical Calculating Machine Known as the Antikythera Mechanism - Freeth 2014
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0021828614537185 - The Antikythera Mechanism: the CONSTRUCTION of the METONIC POINTER and the back PLATE spirals - M. ANASTASIOU et al 2014
https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/10.1484/J.ALMAGEST.5.110735 The Back Dial and Back Plate Inscriptions - Anastasiou et al 2016
https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/10.1484/J.ALMAGEST.5.110736 - The Back Cover Inscription - Bitsakis/Jones 2016
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2972/hesperia.86.1.0129 The Calendar on the Antikythera Mechanism and the Corinthian Family of Calendars – Iversen 2017
https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-018-0210-9 Revising the eclipse prediction scheme in the Antikythera mechanism - Freeth 2019
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00407-019-00229-9 The Back Plate Inscription and eclipse scheme of the Antikythera Mechanism revisited - Iversen/Jones 2019
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344329999_The_Antikythera_Mechanism_Rhodes_and_Epeiros "The Antikythera Mechanism, Rhodes, and Epeiros" - Iverson, P 2020
Lunisolar Calendar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunisolar_calendar
Intercalation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercalation_(timekeeping)
Intercalary Year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_year
Metonic Cycle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonic_cycle
Callippic Cycle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callippic_cycle
Variability of ancient Greek Calendars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_calendars
Plutarch, on the start of the lunar month: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0063%3Achapter%3D25%3Asection%3D3