The Antikythera Mechanism Episode 11 - Inscribing The Back Plate - Part 2 (Patreon)

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

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. ________________________________________________________ A very special thank you to Patrons: Sinking Valley Woodworks (http://www.sinkingvalleywoodworks.com) Glenn Trewitt Christopher Warnock Guy Loughridge Charles Frodsham & Co. Peter John Richardson Adam Slagle Thomas Veilleux Robin Haerens L'Enfant Watch Company C. A. Patrick Voigt Mark Coburn Bogdan Dan Steven R. Crider Gary Levario Pete Askew Jeff Armstrong Rudolph Bescherer Jr Robert Petz Ralph McCoy Jim Popwell Kaedenn Bradley Pirtle Alan Carey PaxAndromeda John A McCormick Thomas Eriksen Michael Hardel Tim Ball Dominik Rogala Xanadu-King Eric Witte Peter Grant Michener Jonathan Teegarden Steve Hossner ________________________________________________________ References: LUNAR ECLIPSES AND THE SAROS: https://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 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_07_003-041_Jones.pdf The Keskintos Astronomical Inscription Text and Interpretations - Alexander Jones 2006 https://www.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 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00407-014-0145-5 On the epoch of the Antikythera mechanism and its eclipse predictor - Carman & Evans 2014 https://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 https://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 https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/10.1484/J.ALMAGEST.5.110735 The Back Dial and Back Plate Inscriptions - Anastasiou et al 2016 https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/10.1484/J.ALMAGEST.5.110736 - The Back Cover Inscription - Bitsakis/Jones 2016 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2972/hesperia.86.1.0129 The Calendar on the Antikythera Mechanism and the Corinthian Family of Calendars – Iversen 2017 https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-018-0210-9 Revising the eclipse prediction scheme in the Antikythera mechanism - Freeth 2019 https://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 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344329999_The_Antikythera_Mechanism_Rhodes_and_Epeiros "The Antikythera Mechanism, Rhodes, and Epeiros" - Iverson, P 2020 Lunisolar Calendar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunisolar_calendar Intercalation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercalation_(timekeeping) Intercalary Year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_year Metonic Cycle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonic_cycle Callippic Cycle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callippic_cycle Variability of ancient Greek Calendars: https://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: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hour