The Back Plate Inscription and eclipse scheme of the Antikythera Mechanism revisited

This paper presents a new edition of the Back Plate Inscription (BPI) of the Antikythera Mechanism, a series of descriptions of circumstances associated with eclipses indicated cyclically by the inscriptions of the Mechanism’s Saros Dial Scale. Our edition features several significant new readings a...

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Main Authors: Iversen, P. (Author), Jones, A. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Verlag 2019
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