Talk:Antikythera mechanism

Latest comment: 16 days ago by Anvib in topic The Roman Republic

Antykithera in Indiana Jones

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Well, they totally made the design for the antykithera look like the actual thing right? No. I mean I understand that they made it look "cooler", but I think that if they made it like the original it would be less like that one itch that is just out of reach. In summary, I wish that they would've been more attenuate to the details. Jeremy Porter (MD) (talk) 01:24, 13 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

U of Glasgow research from June 2024

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New research from a team of astronomers at the University of Glasgow using Bayesian analysis and techniques from the field of gravitational wave astronomy casts new light on the mechanism. I've added two new citations to § Further reading, and there are many more available if needed. The original paper is An Improved Calendar Ring Hole-Count for the Antikythera Mechanism: A Fresh Analysis. Mathglot (talk) 19:24, 12 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Pronunciation

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It's not AN-tik-ih-THEER-ə, it's anti-KITH-er-a Constant Pedant (talk) 03:32, 12 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

The Roman Republic

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I don't know whether this point has been discussed before however it seems obvious to me that the subject of the article is not actually exclusively the cultural property of Ancient Greece. The item was found on board a Roman cargo vessel at the time when Greece was a well established part of the Roman Republic. This fact does not appear to be very well represented in the opening part of the article, which gives the impression that this was exclusively a cultural item of Ancient Greece. Can I suggest that the opening sentence instead starts with: "The Antikythera mechanism is a Roman-era, Ancient Greek hand-powered orrery (model of the Solar System."Anvib (talk) 22:25, 19 October 2024 (UTC)Reply