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The Antikythera Mechanism: Evidence of a Lunar Calendar

Chris Budiselic, Andrew T. Thoeni, M. Dubno et al., 2020. Horological Journal (British Horological Institute).

Measures the 81 surviving holes of the calendar ring in the CT data and argues from their spacing that the full ring had 354 holes, a lunar year, not 365. Digital pre-press 5 December 2020; print with minor revisions in the March 2021 issue. The BHI page offers the paper and the hole-measurement data for download.

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Origin of the lunar-calendar-ring claim and the dataset the 2024 analyses reuse.

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Budiselic, C., Thoeni, A. T., Dubno, M., & Ramsey, A. T. (2020). The Antikythera Mechanism: Evidence of a Lunar Calendar. Horological Journal (British Horological Institute). https://bhi.co.uk/antikytheramechanism/
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