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M.T. Wright on the Antikythera Mechanism

to June 2007.

The following list includes my more substantial papers to date. Those items that contribute most to building up a picture of my new reconstruction of the Antikythera Mechanism are shaded.

1

"Simple X-ray Tomography and the Antikythera Mechanism", PACT (Révue du groupe européen d'études pour les techniques physiques, chimiques, biologiques et mathématiques appliquées à l'archéologie or Journal of the European Study Group on Physical, Chemical, Biological and Mathematical Techniques Applied to Archaeology), vol.45 (1995), pp. 531 – 543. (The issue, entitled Archaeometry in South-Eastern Europe, was devoted to the proceedings of the 2nd. Conference under that title, held in Delphi, 19th – 21st April, 1991.)
(jointly with A.G. Bromley and H. Magou.)

2

"Current Work on the Antikythera Mechanism", Proc. Conf. Αρχαία Ελληνική Τεχνολογία (Ancient Greek Technology), Thessaloniki, 4 – 7 September 1997, pp. 19 – 25 (jointly with A.G. Bromley - the paper is printed in English with a summary in Greek).

3

"A Planetarium Display for the Antikythera Mechanism", Horological Journal, vol. 144 no. 5 (May 2002), pp. 169 – 173, and vol. 144 no. 6 (June 2002), p. 193.

4

"Towards a New Reconstruction of the Antikythera Mechanism", ed. S.A. Paipetis, Proc. Conf. Extraordinary Machines and Structures in Antiquity (Ancient Olympia, August 2001), Peri Technon, Patras 2003, pp. 81 – 94 (the proceedings are available in separate English and Greek editions).

5

"In the Steps of the Master Mechanic", Proc. Conf. Η Αρχαία Ελλάδα και ο Σύγχρονος Κόσμος (Ancient Greece and the Modern World) (Ancient Olympia, July 2002), University of Patras 2003, pp. 86 – 97.

6

"Epicyclic Gearing and the Antikythera Mechanism, part 1", Antiquarian Horology, vol. 27 no. 3 (March 2003), pp. 270 – 279.

7

Eds. N. Easterbrook et al., Master Seafarers: the Phoenicians and Greeks (vol. 2 of Encyclopaedia of Underwater Archaeology), Periplus, 2003.
A short contribution concerning the Antikythera Mechanism.

8

"The Scholar, the Mechanic and the Antikythera Mechanism" (Printed digest of the S.I.S. annual Invitation Lecture, delivered November 2003), Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society, no. 80 (March 2004), pp. 4 – 11.

9

"The Antikythera Mechanism: a New Gearing Scheme", Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society, no. 85 (June 2005), pp. 2 – 7.

10

“Ο Μηχανισμός των Αντικυθήρων” (The Antikythera Mechanism), Αρχαιολογία & Τεχνές 95 (June 2005), pp. 54 – 60 (in Greek).

11

"Il meccanismo di Anticitera: l’antica tradizione dei meccanismi ad ingranaggio" (The Antikythera Mechanism: evidence for an ancient tradition of the making of geared instruments), in: E. Lo Sardo (ed.), Eureka! Il genio degli antichi (catalogue of an exhibition of that name, National Archaeological Museum, Naples, July 2005 – January 2006), Electa Napoli 2005, pp. 241 – 244 (in Italian).

12

"Epicyclic Gearing and the Antikythera Mechanism, part 2", Antiquarian Horology, vol. 29 no. 1 (September 2005), pp. 51 – 63.

13

"Counting Months and Years: the Upper Back Dial of the Antikythera Mechanism", Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society, no. 87 (December 2005), pp. 8 – 13.

14

"The Antikythera Mechanism and the early history of the Moon Phase Display", Antiquarian Horology, vol. 29 no. 3 (March 2006), pp. 319 – 329.  [ 6.5 MB ]

15

"Understanding the Antikythera Mechanism", Proc. Conf. Αρχαία Ελληνική Τεχνολογία (Ancient Greek Technology) (Athens, October 2005), Τεχνικό Επιμελητήριο Ελλάδας (TEE) Athens 2006, pp. 49 – 60 (the paper is printed in English).

A preprint version of this paper is available at the following website: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/portal/pls/portallive/docs/1/7279985.PDF

 

16

“Response to the Discussion”, Proc. Conf. Αρχαία Ελληνική Τεχνολογία (Ancient Greek Technology) (Athens, October 2005), Τεχνικό Επιμελητήριο Ελλάδας (TEE) Athens 2006, pp. 833 – 835.
(a response, in English, to a “Round Table Discussion” on the Antikythera Mechanism preceding it, conducted and printed in Greek)
 

17

“The Antikythera Mechanism reconsidered” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 2007, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 27 – 43.

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Other interesting papers are listed here [NDR]