• DOI:10.1177/002182861004100101
Corpus ID: 14000634

Solar Anomaly and Planetary Displays in the Antikythera Mechanism

@article{Evans2010SolarAA,
  title={Solar Anomaly and Planetary Displays in the Antikythera Mechanism},
  author={James Evans and C. Carman and Alan M. Thorndike},
  journal={Journal for the History of Astronomy},
  year={2010},
  volume={41},
  pages={1 - 39}
}

James Evans, C. Carman, Alan M. Thorndike

Published 2010

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Journal for the History of Astronomy

Recent scholarship has greatly improved our understanding of the structure and function of the Antikythera mechanism.1 One unresolved issue is whether the mechanism included a display of the variability (or anomaly) in the angular motion of the Sun. In Price’s original reconstruction, the motion of the Sun was treated only in the mean. A single pointer indicated the day of the year in the Egyptian calendar and the position of the uniformly-moving mean Sun in the zodiac. Of course, the actual… CONTINUE READING

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