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The Antikythera Mechanism Episode 11 - Inscribing The Back Plate - Part 2

Hi Folks,

Part 2 of the Back Plate Inscriptions is good to go! A deep dive on all things #Saros and #eclipses - do please enjoy :)

Cheers,

Chris.

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References:

LUNAR ECLIPSES AND THE SAROS: eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/LEsaros/LEsaros.html

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

jstor.org/stable/20191159 - "IG" XII, 1 913: An Astronomical Inscription from Hellenistic Rhodes - Alexander Jones 2006

sciamvs.org/files/SCIAMVS_07_003-041_Jones.pdf The Keskintos Astronomical Inscription Text and Interpretations - Alexander Jones 2006

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

link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00407-014-0145-5 On the epoch of the Antikythera mechanism and its eclipse predictor - Carman & Evans 2014

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

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

brepolsonline.net/doi/10.1484/J.ALMAGEST.5.110735 The Back Dial and Back Plate Inscriptions - Anastasiou et al 2016

brepolsonline.net/doi/10.1484/J.ALMAGEST.5.110736 - The Back Cover Inscription - Bitsakis/Jones 2016

jstor.org/stable/10.2972/hesperia.86.1.0129 The Calendar on the Antikythera Mechanism and the Corinthian Family of Calendars – Iversen 2017

doi.org/10.1057/s41599-018-0210-9 Revising the eclipse prediction scheme in the Antikythera mechanism - Freeth 2019

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

researchgate.net/publication/344329999_The_Antikythera_Mechanism_Rhodes_and_Epeiros "The Antikythera Mechanism, Rhodes, and Epeiros" - Iverson, P 2020

Lunisolar Calendar: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunisolar_calendar

Intercalation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercalation_(timekeeping)

Intercalary Year: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_year

Metonic Cycle: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonic_cycle

Callippic Cycle: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callippic_cycle

Variability of ancient Greek Calendars: 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

Hour: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hour