[HTML][HTML] The Back Plate Inscription and eclipse scheme of the Antikythera Mechanism revisited
P Iversen, A Jones - Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 2019 - Springer
This paper presents a new edition of the Back Plate Inscription (BPI) of the Antikythera
Mechanism, a series of descriptions of circumstances associated with eclipses indicated
cyclically by the inscriptions of the Mechanism's Saros Dial Scale. Our edition features
several significant new readings as well as the confirmation of a disputed reading pertaining
to one of the index letters by which the BPI's paragraphs are linked to the specific eclipse
glyphs of the Saros Dial. On the basis of the new text, we deduce a revision of the …
Mechanism, a series of descriptions of circumstances associated with eclipses indicated
cyclically by the inscriptions of the Mechanism's Saros Dial Scale. Our edition features
several significant new readings as well as the confirmation of a disputed reading pertaining
to one of the index letters by which the BPI's paragraphs are linked to the specific eclipse
glyphs of the Saros Dial. On the basis of the new text, we deduce a revision of the …
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