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Improved X-ray computed tomography reconstruction of the largest fragment of the Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient Greek astronomical calculator

Ali Pakzad, Francesco Iacoviello, Andrew Ramsey et al., 2018. PLoS ONE.

Reprocesses the 2005 CT scan of Fragment A, corrects missing projections, shows the fragment did not move during scanning, and releases the full 3D volume (up to 32 GB) on the Harvard Dataverse (doi:10.7910/DVN/UCXZWU).

MYS0D3FQ0XA446F · mystery · click to copyMAntikythera MechanismArticleCopy of The Antikythera Mechanism fragments (X 15087)doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207430Checked against the original0

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Pakzad, A., Iacoviello, F., Ramsey, A., Speller, R., Griffiths, J., Freeth, T., & Gibson, A. (2018). Improved X-ray computed tomography reconstruction of the largest fragment of the Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient Greek astronomical calculator. PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0207430
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