Comments on: Inscriptions on the Antikythera Mechanism (1)

By: November in the calendar of Antiochus of Athens at Roger Pearse

November in the calendar of Antiochus of Athens at Roger Pearse — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:13:03 +0000

[...] is used at least once for “heliacal rising.” Interestingly it appears on the Antikythera mechanism. Tags: Antiochus of Athens, Astrological [...]

By: ctpax

ctpax — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:12:14 +0000

First of all, sorry about my rude english…
My interest is, is it possible to find out did they use some screws for assembling device like that, and when they drill holes, are that holes in milimeters of inch standards. Is there any answer like that…

By: Volkmar E. Tabery

Volkmar E. Tabery — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:35:59 +0000

Dear sirs,

I’m reading all Your discussions with a lot of interest, cause I’m very taken by this greek mechanism. I wanted to mention though that a person being able to make such an apparatus and describe its functions must have been at least 50 or 60 years of age. So this means it could have been made around 100 BC by somebody writing all the inscriptions from 150 BC. Couldn’t that be true?

Kind regards.

Volkmar E. Tabery

By: PaulIversen

PaulIversen — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:06:23 +0000

Tom and Gabby,

Tom must be right, as I just received an email for a comment by someone else on Virtual Corinth I. Sorry for the bother.

By: Tom Elliott

Tom Elliott — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:52:40 +0000

Paul, Gabby:

I think the way this works is: if you are a registered author on the blog, you get an email notice anytime someone other than you comments on a post you’ve written. That’s a separate function from the webfeed for comments, which is: http://www.currentepigraphy.org/comments/feed/ , which gives you the most recent 10 comments on any article in the blog.

You can also get a feed of comments for an individual article by subscribing to the individual page for that post (some browsers will give you an obvious way to do this or you can just append “/feed” — minus the quotation marks — to the url for that page, e.g.: http://www.currentepigraphy.org/2008/09/24/inscriptions-on-the-antikythera-mechanism-1/feed/

Hope that helps,
Tom

By: Gabriel Bodard

Gabriel Bodard — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:15:07 +0000

Oh I see. How did you register to receive RSS notifications by email? (If, like me, you did so through the service RSSfwd, I believe they upgraded their software and wiped their database a couple weeks ago. You probably need to re-register.)

By: PaulIversen

PaulIversen — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:41:17 +0000

Gaby,

I was (long ago) signed up for the RSS comments and I got an email a week and half ago saying Alexander posted a comment. But when I posted a response, I didn’t get an email. I thought in the past when I posted a comment myself, I would get an email, but maybe that’s not the case? Or did I somehow manage to unsubscribe myself? I don’t see where, though.

By: Gabriel Bodard

Gabriel Bodard — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:08:59 +0000

Which RSS feed are you subscribed to, Paul? The comments won't appear in the normal posts RSS, but they should be in the comments RSS (which seems to work fine for me).

By: PaulIversen

PaulIversen — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:34:57 +0000

For those of you who were not getting RSS feeds on the “Virtual Seminar of Some Unpublished Inscriptions from Corinth” (and I think now they’ve all been turned off), Alexander also posted a query about the calendar on the Mechanism and its possible relationship to the calendar at Corinth here:

http://www.currentepigraphy.org/2008/05/28/virtual-seminar-on-some-unpublished-inscriptions-from-corinth-i/#comments

By: Dave Cox

Dave Cox — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:00:48 +0000

Is there a translation of what these inscriptions say? Wonderfull and facinating subject. Thanks