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Gears from the Greeks: The Antikythera Mechanism, a Calendar Computer from ca. 80 B.C.
Derek de Solla Price, 1974. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society.
The first full study, from gamma radiographs, establishing the device as a geared calendrical calculator and reconstructing the main train. Transactions 64(7).
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Historical baseline for the gearing.
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Price, D. d. S. (1974). Gears from the Greeks: The Antikythera Mechanism, a Calendar Computer from ca. 80 B.C.. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. https://doi.org/10.70249/9780871693006
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Price, Derek de Solla. “Gears from the Greeks: The Antikythera Mechanism, a Calendar Computer from ca. 80 B.C..” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (1974). https://doi.org/10.70249/9780871693006.