[PDF][PDF] The Epoch Dates of the Antikythera Mechanism (With an Appendix on its Authenticity)
A Jones - 2020 - archive.nyu.edu
Attempts previous to 2014 to date the ancient Greek astronomical Antikythera Mechanism,
on the basis of the letter forms of its inscriptions or on its Egyptian Calendar scale's
alignment, were inconclusive.(Occasional claims that the Mechanism was not a product of
antiquity at all are refuted in an appendix to this paper.) In 2014, two separate and complex
arguments were published dating the series of computed lunar and solar eclipses inscribed
on the Mechanism's Saros Dial to the interval 205-187 BCE, and in 2017 an argument was …
on the basis of the letter forms of its inscriptions or on its Egyptian Calendar scale's
alignment, were inconclusive.(Occasional claims that the Mechanism was not a product of
antiquity at all are refuted in an appendix to this paper.) In 2014, two separate and complex
arguments were published dating the series of computed lunar and solar eclipses inscribed
on the Mechanism's Saros Dial to the interval 205-187 BCE, and in 2017 an argument was …
