Antikythera update 3
This was update one and this was update two.
"It was not clear initially what the device was, except that it was clearly a sophisticated mechanism. X-ray analysis was subsequently used to probe the inner structure of the device, the details of the gears [video link]. Finally in 1974, a full analysis was published by Professor D. De Solla Price. While some of the original gearing was missing, there was enough to work out that the device was intended to show the motion of the Moon, Sun, and most likely, the planets when the handle was turned."
Click image to view animation of gears.
Meanwhile, at Archaeoastronomy:
"The letter in Nature for Nov 30, 2006, announces the findings of the X-ray team and appears to confirm the astronomical hypothesis. The X-rays have enabled more of the mechanism to be read. An inscription on the back door appears to include astronomical periods, including the Saros cycle of 223 synodic months (a synodic month being the period from one New Moon to the next). The inscription on the front door is fragmentary but with lines like 'brings towards the Sun up to... and conjunction,' it would take a powerful imagination to conclude it wasn't some form of [astronomical] calculation device."
"It was not clear initially what the device was, except that it was clearly a sophisticated mechanism. X-ray analysis was subsequently used to probe the inner structure of the device, the details of the gears [video link]. Finally in 1974, a full analysis was published by Professor D. De Solla Price. While some of the original gearing was missing, there was enough to work out that the device was intended to show the motion of the Moon, Sun, and most likely, the planets when the handle was turned."
Click image to view animation of gears.
Meanwhile, at Archaeoastronomy:
"The letter in Nature for Nov 30, 2006, announces the findings of the X-ray team and appears to confirm the astronomical hypothesis. The X-rays have enabled more of the mechanism to be read. An inscription on the back door appears to include astronomical periods, including the Saros cycle of 223 synodic months (a synodic month being the period from one New Moon to the next). The inscription on the front door is fragmentary but with lines like 'brings towards the Sun up to... and conjunction,' it would take a powerful imagination to conclude it wasn't some form of [astronomical] calculation device."
Antikythera update 3
mr damon, 23:55
1 Comments:
Thanks for the updates, I'd forgotten all of this in my recent reinterest in zero point energy. I certainly appreciate your kind and completeness of interests in the subjects both in and out of the box that fascinate me so much, more like preoccupy me, as well. ie: My post "Pyramuddle Pondering" on 11/21/06 and your "As Above, So below" just two days earlier. I hadn't found your blog yet, until I followed Pisces Iscariot's link to you yesterday, and look forward to reading you backward. Hope you don't mind my linking to you under the name, "∏"
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