By Jian-Liang Lin, Hong-Sen Yan
This e-book provides a scientific layout technique for interpreting the internal constitution of the Antikythera mechanism, an astronomical machine from historic Greece. The ancient historical past, surviving facts and reconstructions of the mechanism are brought, and the ancient improvement of astronomical achievements and numerous astronomical tools are investigated. Pursuing an procedure in line with the conceptual layout of recent mechanisms and taking into account the factors of technological know-how and expertise on the time, all possible designs of the six lost/incomplete/unclear subsystems are synthesized as illustrated examples, and forty eight possible designs of the full inside constitution are provided. This technique offers not just a logical software for making use of glossy mechanical engineering wisdom to the reconstruction of the Antikythera mechanism, but additionally an leading edge learn path for determining the unique buildings of the mechanism sooner or later. briefly, the ebook deals necessary new insights for all readers who're drawn to the Antikythera mechanism.
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The manners for showing the moon phase were particular and diverse. They depended on the relative motion of the Moon disk and the fixed plate for showing the moon phase. They could have a rotatable moon disk with full-black circles that were regarded as the moon shadow. Depending on the corresponding gearing, the moon disk was driven 40 2 Ancient Astronomical Instruments to gradually show the shadow in a hole of fixed case. Or, a Moon disk that was white and had a hole rotated over a fixed full-black plate for moon shadow.
Therefore, the ship full of valuable goods is suggested as a ship for paying tribute. The excavation of Antikythera astronomical device, preserved in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens now, is a group of fragments, as shown in Fig. 3. The total number of the excavated fragments is 82 pieces, according to detection results [10–12, 19]. They include 7 major fragments (A–G) and 75 small fragments (no. 1–75). For the assembly positions of these excavated fragments, fragments A, B, C, and D belong to the top of the device, and fragments E, F, and G are below these 4 major fragments.
One design is the ordinary gear train used in the Islamic astrolabe with calendrical gearing, the Byzantine sundial with calendrical gearing, the Persian astrolabe with calendrical gearing, the French Gothic astrolabe, and the orrery. Such a mechanical design represents the mean motions of heavenly bodies. Since these motions are almost anomaly, there are errors between the prediction positions of these apparatus and the actual observation positions in the night sky. Another design is a planetary gear train with pin-in-slot joints.