The image of the gear arrangement in Wikipedia was invaluable and gives the number of teeth on all the gears but nothing related to pin positions in the pin and slot arrangements.
My understanding of the equation of time is that it is made up of two elements, eccentricity and obliquity. Both...
Thanks for the reply.
I'm beginning to think that the Greeks merely wanted to show the effect of the equation of time rather than the exact values and the value of 2 degrees you quote would hardly be visible on a 365 day dial.
I'm sure the anomaly referred to in the book is the maximum angular...
I'm building a replica of the Antikythera Mechanism; a device that was conceived and manufactured around 50BC.
it is an orrery and amongst other things it shows the motion of the five known planets, the sun and the moon when viewed from the earth.
I've managed to calculate the motion of the...