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The Cosmos in the Antikythera Mechanism

Tony Freeth, Alexander Jones, 2012. ISAW Papers 4.

Reads the back-cover inscription as describing a front display of the stars, sun, moon and five planets, and proposes planetary gearing on the pattern of the lunar anomaly device. The authors call the gearing conjectural.

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The first full argument for the planetary display.

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Freeth, T., & Jones, A. (2012). The Cosmos in the Antikythera Mechanism. ISAW Papers 4. https://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/4/
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