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Historical Development of Reconstruction Designs of Antikythera Mechanism

  Antikythera mechanism is an ancient Greece machine excavated in 1900.The damaged remains and ingenious mechanical structure resulted in mans thirst to decode this mechanism.This paper reviews the historical development regarding reconstruction designs of Antikythera mechanism.The origin,the recovering process and the related historical records are introduced first.Available reconstruction designs,which are classified into the orientation of mechanism,the decoding of modern technology including the appearance,the functions of the exterior dials and the interior structure,other research and the authors work are presented.Then,based on the viewpoint of mechanisms,the mechanism analysis of one feasible reconstruction design with the complete interior structure,by the authors,is presented.This new design to generate all known output functions also provides a possible embryo of Antikythera mechanism.

Antikythera mechanism Greece machine Reconstruction design

Jian-Liang Lin Hong-Sen Yan

Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan

国际会议

The 9th International Conference on History of Mechanical Technology and Mechanical Design (第9届中日机械技术史及机械设计国际会议(ICHMTMD 2012))

台湾

英文

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2012-03-23(万方平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)