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The Antikythera Mechanism Episode 12, Part 1 - Making The Lunar Phase Display Assembly

🕑 Added 2025-05-28 09:35:58 +0000 UTC

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Clickspring

We briefly cover this in our conclusion; the finding of 'not 365' obliges re-evaluation of several previous assertions, including the one you identify - Cheers :)

Clickspring

Yes I'd like that, it would be a fun exercise - Cheers :)

Tom Dunbar

Alexander Jones concludes the alignment between the Egyptian Calendar Scale (using an assumed 365 holes) and the Zodiac scale is a "random configuration thoughtlessly created by whoever packed the Mechanism up for its fateful voyage." http://hdl.handle.net/2333.1/ffbg7m07 Do you know if your discovery that the Egyptian Calendar Scale has 354 holes has provided any additional details on the epoch date or zero setting of the mechanism? I wasn't able to find any research along these lines.

Gregor Shapiro

Scott Manley just dropped a video "Using Micron Scale X-Ray Tomography On Starship Tiles" you should try to get some of the Antikythera device into a machine like that for a nice look inside!