The Antikhytera Celestial Machine:

fragments of genius from a legendary science.

Having long been fascinated by this mechanism, I started to learn more in order to build a mechanical model of it. Eventually, I got a more personal and less orthodox opinion about it.

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(Last update: april 9, 2009)

	Miscellaneous images with some comments of the story (new page).
	VRML schematic models of the Machine according to Price, Bromley, the Antikhytera Mechanism Research Project Group, and the last one modified by myself (wrl, 1.9 Mb).
	VRML schematic model of the Machine, my version only (wrl, 660 Kb).
	Explanatory video of virtual model (full resolution, 4th vers., .avi-Divx, 64 Mb).
	The real model running (videoclip .divx, 7Mb).
	The front panel.
	The rear panel.
	The Machine at the Planetario di Milano (may 10, 2007).
	The Machine at the Ionic Center in Athens, near the replicas by Wright and Kriaris (october 22, 2008).
A new virtual model: the complete Machine fitted with planets, according to the theoretical and mechanical reconstruction by Michael Wright:   Mostra per il 400mo di Galileo a Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, spring 2009 streaming video