# Freeth 2006: Decoding the ancient Greek astronomical calculator known as the Antikythera Mechanism

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# Decoding the ancient Greek astronomical calculator known as the Antikythera Mechanism

T. Freeth, Y. Bitsakis, X. Moussas et al., 2006. _Nature_.

Reports the 2005 X-ray tomography of the Antikythera Mechanism's fragments and the gear trains and inscriptions it revealed, with a model of what the device computed.

**Voynich Manuscript** Articledoi: **[10.1038/nature05357](https://doi.org/10.1038/nature05357)** Checked against the original0

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Freeth, T., Bitsakis, Y., Moussas, X., Seiradakis, J. H., Tselikas, A., Mangou, H., Zafeiropoulou, M., Hadland, R., Bate, D., Ramsey, A., Allen, M., Crawley, A., Hockley, P., Malzbender, T., Gelb, D., Ambrisco, W., & Edmunds, M. G. (2006). Decoding the ancient Greek astronomical calculator known as the Antikythera Mechanism. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature05357
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