On the epoch of the Antikythera mechanism and its eclipse predictor

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Carman, Christian Carlos; Evans, James
Año de publicación
2014
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The eclipse predictor (or Saros dial) of the Antikythera mechanism provides a wealth of astronomical information and offers practically the only possibility for a close astronomical dating of the mechanism. We apply a series of constraints, in a sort of sieve of Eratosthenes, to sequentially eliminate possibilities for the epoch date. We find that the solar eclipse of month 13 of the Saros dial almost certainly belongs to solar Saros series 44. And the eclipse predictor would work best if the full Moon of month 1 of the Saros dial corresponds to May 12, 205 BCE, with the exeligmos dial set at 0. We also examine some possibilities for the theory that underlies the eclipse times on the Saros dial and find that a Babylonian-style arithmetical scheme employing an equation of center and daily velocities would match the inscribed times of day quite well. Indeed, an arithmetic scheme for the eclipse times matches the evidence somewhat better than does a trigonometric model.
Fil: Carman, Christian Carlos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología; Argentina
Fil: Evans, James. University Of Puget Sound; Estados Unidos
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ANTIKYTHERA MECHANISM
SOLAR ECLIPSES
ASTRONOMY
INSTRUMENTS
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spelling On the epoch of the Antikythera mechanism and its eclipse predictorCarman, Christian CarlosEvans, JamesANTIKYTHERA MECHANISMSOLAR ECLIPSESASTRONOMYINSTRUMENTShttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.3https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6The eclipse predictor (or Saros dial) of the Antikythera mechanism provides a wealth of astronomical information and offers practically the only possibility for a close astronomical dating of the mechanism. We apply a series of constraints, in a sort of sieve of Eratosthenes, to sequentially eliminate possibilities for the epoch date. We find that the solar eclipse of month 13 of the Saros dial almost certainly belongs to solar Saros series 44. And the eclipse predictor would work best if the full Moon of month 1 of the Saros dial corresponds to May 12, 205 BCE, with the exeligmos dial set at 0. We also examine some possibilities for the theory that underlies the eclipse times on the Saros dial and find that a Babylonian-style arithmetical scheme employing an equation of center and daily velocities would match the inscribed times of day quite well. Indeed, an arithmetic scheme for the eclipse times matches the evidence somewhat better than does a trigonometric model.Fil: Carman, Christian Carlos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología; ArgentinaFil: Evans, James. University Of Puget Sound; Estados UnidosSpringer2014-11info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/98820Carman, Christian Carlos; Evans, James; On the epoch of the Antikythera mechanism and its eclipse predictor; Springer; Archive for History of Exact Sciences; 68; 6; 11-2014; 693-7740003-9519CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00407-014-0145-5info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1007/s00407-014-0145-5info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-09-03T10:09:08Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/98820instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-09-03 10:09:09.043CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv On the epoch of the Antikythera mechanism and its eclipse predictor
title On the epoch of the Antikythera mechanism and its eclipse predictor
spellingShingle On the epoch of the Antikythera mechanism and its eclipse predictor
Carman, Christian Carlos
ANTIKYTHERA MECHANISM
SOLAR ECLIPSES
ASTRONOMY
INSTRUMENTS
title_short On the epoch of the Antikythera mechanism and its eclipse predictor
title_full On the epoch of the Antikythera mechanism and its eclipse predictor
title_fullStr On the epoch of the Antikythera mechanism and its eclipse predictor
title_full_unstemmed On the epoch of the Antikythera mechanism and its eclipse predictor
title_sort On the epoch of the Antikythera mechanism and its eclipse predictor
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Carman, Christian Carlos
Evans, James
author Carman, Christian Carlos
author_facet Carman, Christian Carlos
Evans, James
author_role author
author2 Evans, James
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv ANTIKYTHERA MECHANISM
SOLAR ECLIPSES
ASTRONOMY
INSTRUMENTS
topic ANTIKYTHERA MECHANISM
SOLAR ECLIPSES
ASTRONOMY
INSTRUMENTS
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.3
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv The eclipse predictor (or Saros dial) of the Antikythera mechanism provides a wealth of astronomical information and offers practically the only possibility for a close astronomical dating of the mechanism. We apply a series of constraints, in a sort of sieve of Eratosthenes, to sequentially eliminate possibilities for the epoch date. We find that the solar eclipse of month 13 of the Saros dial almost certainly belongs to solar Saros series 44. And the eclipse predictor would work best if the full Moon of month 1 of the Saros dial corresponds to May 12, 205 BCE, with the exeligmos dial set at 0. We also examine some possibilities for the theory that underlies the eclipse times on the Saros dial and find that a Babylonian-style arithmetical scheme employing an equation of center and daily velocities would match the inscribed times of day quite well. Indeed, an arithmetic scheme for the eclipse times matches the evidence somewhat better than does a trigonometric model.
Fil: Carman, Christian Carlos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología; Argentina
Fil: Evans, James. University Of Puget Sound; Estados Unidos
description The eclipse predictor (or Saros dial) of the Antikythera mechanism provides a wealth of astronomical information and offers practically the only possibility for a close astronomical dating of the mechanism. We apply a series of constraints, in a sort of sieve of Eratosthenes, to sequentially eliminate possibilities for the epoch date. We find that the solar eclipse of month 13 of the Saros dial almost certainly belongs to solar Saros series 44. And the eclipse predictor would work best if the full Moon of month 1 of the Saros dial corresponds to May 12, 205 BCE, with the exeligmos dial set at 0. We also examine some possibilities for the theory that underlies the eclipse times on the Saros dial and find that a Babylonian-style arithmetical scheme employing an equation of center and daily velocities would match the inscribed times of day quite well. Indeed, an arithmetic scheme for the eclipse times matches the evidence somewhat better than does a trigonometric model.
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