The Antikythera Mechanism Episode 11 - Inscribing The Back Plate - Part 1

The Antikythera Mechanism Episode 11 - Inscribing The Back Plate - Part 1Hi Folks,Pack your sandals for the Hellenistic world, and be sure to bring the translator! We're off to learn about the Metonic calendar...παρακαλώ απολαύστε!Cheers, Chris.ps be sure to subscribe to the clips channel: https://youtube.com/clickspringclips________________________________________________________A very special thank you to Patrons:Sinking Valley Woodworks (http://www.sinkingvalleywoodworks.com)Glenn TrewittChristopher WarnockGuy LoughridgePeter John RichardsonAdam SlagleThomas VeilleuxRobin HaerensCharles Frodsham & Co.C. A. Patrick VoigtMark CoburnBogdan DanSteven R. CriderGary LevarioPete AskewJeff ArmstrongRudolph Bescherer JrRobert PetzRalph McCoyJim PopwellBradley PirtleAlan CareyPaxAndromedaJohn A McCormickThomas EriksenMichael HardelTim BallDominik RogalaXanadu-KingEric WittePeterGrant MichenerJonathan Teegarden________________________________________________________References:http://hist.science.online.fr/antikythera/DOCS/Bulletin%20SIS%20December%202005%20Counting.pdf - Counting Months and Years: The Upper Back Dial of the Antikythera Mechanism1 M.T. Wright 2005https://www.jstor.org/stable/20191159 - "IG" XII, 1 913: An Astronomical Inscription from Hellenistic Rhodes - Alexander Jones 2006https://www.sciamvs.org/files/SCIAMVS_07_003-041_Jones.pdf The Keskintos Astronomical Inscription Text and Interpretations - Alexander Jones 2006https://www.nature.com/articles/nature07130 - Calendars with Olympiad display and eclipseprediction on the Antikythera Mechanism - Freeth et al 2008https://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/atzioumi/Antikythera2012/presentations/X-ray_Tomography-Ramsey.pdf X-ray Tomography of the Antikythera Mechanism - Andrew Ramsey 2012https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00407-014-0145-5 On the epoch of the Antikythera mechanism and its eclipse predictor - Carman & Evans 2014https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0103275 Eclipse Prediction on the Ancient Greek Astronomical Calculating Machine Known as the Antikythera Mechanism - Freeth 2014https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0021828614537185 - The Antikythera Mechanism: the CONSTRUCTION of the METONIC POINTER and the back PLATE spirals - M. ANASTASIOU et al 2014https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/10.1484/J.ALMAGEST.5.110735 The Back Dial and Back Plate Inscriptions - Anastasiou et al 2016https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/10.1484/J.ALMAGEST.5.110736 - The Back Cover Inscription - Bitsakis/Jones 2016http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2972/hesperia.86.1.0129 The Calendar on the Antikythera Mechanism and the Corinthian Family of Calendars – Iversen 2017https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-018-0210-9 Revising the eclipse prediction scheme in the Antikythera mechanism - Freeth 2019https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00407-019-00229-9 The Back Plate Inscription and eclipse scheme of the Antikythera Mechanism revisited - Iversen/Jones 2019https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344329999_The_Antikythera_Mechanism_Rhodes_and_Epeiros "The Antikythera Mechanism, Rhodes, and Epeiros" - Iverson, P 2020 Lunisolar Calendar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunisolar_calendarIntercalation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercalation_(timekeeping)Intercalary Year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_yearMetonic Cycle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonic_cycleCallippic Cycle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callippic_cycleVariability of ancient Greek Calendars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_calendarsPlutarch, on the start of the lunar month: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0063%3Achapter%3D25%3Asection%3D3