Antikythera mechanism: References & Edit History
Additional Reading
Derek De Solla Price, Gears from the Greeks: The Antikythera Mechanism, a Calendar Computer from ca. 80 B.C. (1974), is the classic work of research into the mechanism up to the early 1970s, including the first X-ray investigations. T. Freeth et al., “Decoding the Ancient Greek Astronomical Calculator Known as the Antikythera Mechanism,” Nature, 444:587–591 (Nov. 30, 2006), references work since Price and is the initial publication of the reconstruction of the mechanism and its inscriptions, based on modern surface imaging and X-ray microfocus tomography; and “Calendars with Olympiad Display and Eclipse Prediction on the Antikythera Mechanism,” Nature, 454:614–617 (July 31, 2008), presents subsequent work, giving details of the particular calendars intrinsic to the mechanism and showing the indicator for the Panhellenic games.
Article Contributors
Primary Contributors
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Michael Edmunds
Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics, Cardiff University, U.K., and a member of the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project.
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Article History
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| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - A Model of the Cosmos in the ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism. | Sep 17, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: German Patent and Trade Mark Office - The Antikythera mechanism. | Jan 16, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: UNESCO Digital Heritage Research Laboratory - The Antikythera Mechanism. | Dec 06, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: ACM Digital Library - The Antikythera Mechanism (PDF). | Oct 24, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: IOPscience - IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering - A review of reconstruction research for the lost gearing of antikythera astronomical calculator (PDF). | Sep 12, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - The Antikythera Mechanism. | Aug 01, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - The Science Show - Decoding the Heavens - the antikythera ancient computer. | Jun 20, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Communications of the ACM - The Antikythera Mechanism. | Feb 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: British Horological Institute - The Antikythera Mechanism Evidence of a Lunar Calendar Parts 1and2. | Sep 13, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Antikythera Mechanism The oldest computer and Mechanical Cosmos of the 2 nd century BC (PDF). | Dec 08, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of California Berkeley Library - The Antikythera Mechanism. | Oct 13, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Antikythera Mechanism. | Aug 18, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Scientific Reports - A model of the cosmos in the ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism. | Apr 01, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: UC Berkeley Open Book Publishing - The Discipline of Organizing: 4th Professional Edition - The Antikythera Mechanism. | Oct 04, 2022 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 29, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Ancient Origins - The Antikythera mechanism. | Jul 06, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Modeling and Simulation of the Antikythera Mechanism. | Apr 05, 2018 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jan 24, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: Age of the Sage - Transmitting the Wisdom of the Ages - The Antikythera Mechanism. | Nov 23, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: LiveScience - Antikythera mechanism: Ancient celestial calculator. | Nov 23, 2017 | ||
| New article added. | Feb 19, 2009 |