On the epoch of the Antikythera mechanism and its eclipse predictor

DOI10.1007/s00407-014-0145-5zbMath1305.85011OpenAlexW2036379400WikidataQ55922386 ScholiaQ55922386MaRDI QIDQ484143

Yong-Cai Geng, Sumit K. Garg

Publication date: 18 December 2014

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-014-0145-5

zbMATH Keywords

Antikythera mechanismeclipse predictorSaros dialsieve of Eratosthenes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05) General questions in astronomy and astrophysics (85A04) History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of astronomy and astrophysics (85-03)

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