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: https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/LEsaros...

http://hist.science.online.fr/antikyt... Counting Months and Years: The Upper Back Dial of the Antikythera Mechanism1 M.T. Wright 2005

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

https://www.sciamvs.org/files/SCIAMVS... The Keskintos Astronomical Inscription Text and Interpretations Alexander Jones 2006

https://www.nature.com/articles/natur... Calendars with Olympiad display and eclipse

prediction on the Antikythera Mechanism Freeth et al 2008

https://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/atzi... Xray Tomography of the Antikythera Mechanism Andrew Ramsey 2012

https://link.springer.com/article/10.... On the epoch of the Antikythera mechanism and its eclipse predictor Carman & Evans 2014

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art... Eclipse Prediction on the Ancient Greek Astronomical Calculating Machine Known as the Antikythera Mechanism Freeth 2014

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1... The Antikythera Mechanism: the CONSTRUCTION of the METONIC POINTER and the back PLATE spirals M. ANASTASIOU et al 2014

https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/10.... The Back Dial and Back Plate Inscriptions Anastasiou et al 2016

https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/10.... The Back Cover Inscription Bitsakis/Jones 2016

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2972/h... The Calendar on the Antikythera Mechanism and the Corinthian Family of Calendars – Iversen 2017

https://doi.org/10.1057/s4159901802... Revising the eclipse prediction scheme in the Antikythera mechanism Freeth 2019

https://link.springer.com/article/10.... The Back Plate Inscription and eclipse scheme of the Antikythera Mechanism revisited Iversen/Jones 2019

https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... "The Antikythera Mechanism, Rhodes, and Epeiros" Iverson, P 2020

Lunisolar Calendar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunisol...

Intercalation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interca...)

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

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

Callippic Cycle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callipp...

Variability of ancient Greek Calendars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient...

Plutarch, on the start of the lunar month: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/t...

Hour: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hour