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: january 2012)
Miscellaneous images with some comments of the story (new page). |
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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). |
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VRML schematic model of the Machine, my version only (wrl, 660 Kb). |
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Explanatory video of virtual model (full resolution, 4th vers., .avi-Divx, 64 Mb). |
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The real model running (videoclip .divx, 7Mb). |
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The front panel. |
The rear panel. |
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The Machine at the Planetario di Milano (may 10, 2007). |
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The Machine at the Ionic Center in Athens, near the replicas by Wright and Kriaris (october 22, 2008). |
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The Machine at the Science Museum Leonardo da Vinci in Milano (january 2012). |
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The Machine at Pergamon Museum in Berlin (june 2012; copyright Topoi / Bernd Wannenmacher). |
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Further developements : a new virtual model of the Machine fitted with planets, according to the research and the mechanical reconstruction by Michael Wright
Antikythera 2008-2009 (avi-Divx, 180 Mb)
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