Calendars with Olympiad display and eclipse prediction on the Antikythera mechanism

Nature

Volumn 454, Issue 7204, 2008, Pages 614-617

  Freeth, Tony ^a,b   Jones, Alexander ^c   Steele, John M ^d   Bitsakis, Yanis ^a,e  

^a Antikythera Mechanism Research Project   (United Kingdom)

^b Images First Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e Centre for History and Palaeography   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTOLOGY; MODELING; PREDICTION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL PERIOD; TEMPORAL RECORD;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 48349110168     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07130     Document Type: Article

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